Barbara Mennel holds a joint appointment in in the English Department where she is associated with the Film Studies Program and the Feminisms, Genders, & Sexualities track and the German Studies section of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She held the Waldo W. Neikirk Professorship (2014-2021) and the University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship (2018-2021).
In 2024, Dr. Mennel published Mädchen in Uniform in the BFI Film Classics series with Bloomsbury, and in 2023, she published Su Friedrich in the series Contemporary Film Directors with University of Illinois Press. Her co-edited special volume for Feminist German Studies with Angelica Fenner entitled The Singular Plural of Feminist Film Practice has been published in summer 2022. Her book Women at Work in Twenty-first Century European Cinema (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, January 2019) won the Honorable Mention of the 2022 Laura Shannon Prize and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Alumni Club Best Publication Prize in 2022. Previous books include, among others, Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys (Wallflower and Columbia University Press, 2012, translated into French as Le Cinéma queer with L’Arche, 2013), and Cities and Cinema (Routledge, 2008, second edition 2019). A new project on miniatures is underway.
She was the Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. during summer 2013. She spent the academic year 2016-17 as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie FCFP Senior Fellow at FRIAS, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study in Freiburg, Germany. With Vandana Baweja (Architecture, UF), she collaborated on a grant for the Global Architecture History Teaching Collective on “Global Cities and Cinema.” As the previous director of the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (2017-2023), she led the UF project team that participated in the Mellon funded Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium (CCHEC). With Terry Harpold (English), Jack Davis (History), Cynthia Barnett (Journalism), and Ken Sassaman (Anthropology), she co-authored “Look at the Water Coming!”
On sabbatical: 2024-25
Contact
- office: 4219 Turlington Hall
- voice: (352) 294-2820 – On leave: 2023-24
- email: mennel@ufl.edu