Professor Barbara Mennel holds a joint appointment in the German section of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and the Film Studies Program and the Feminisms, Genders, & Sexualities tracks in the English Department. Her research interests include transnational cinematic practices, feminist and queer theory, and the intersection of urban studies and film studies. At UF, she has been awarded the University of Florida Foundation Research Professorship (2018-21) and the Waldo W. Neikirk Professorship (2014-20). She is author of four books: Women at Work in Twenty-first Century European Cinema (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019), which won the Honorable Mention of the 2022 Laura Shannon Prize and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Alumni Club Best Publication Prize in 2022, Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys (Wallflower and Columbia University Press, 2012, translated into French as Le Cinéma queer with L’Arche, 2013), Cities and Cinema (Routledge, 2008, second and revised edition 2019), and The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature (Palgrave, 2007). With Jaimey Fisher she has co-edited the volume Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literature and Visual Culture (Brill, 2010) and with Sabine Hake the collection Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens (Berghahn, 2012). She has published articles in Camera Obscura, Germanic Review, Modern Austrian Literature, New German Critique, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, and Women in German Yearbook. 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.