David.Jenemann@uvm.edu
50 Universityy Heights
Burlington, VT 05405
United States
Alma mater(s)
- Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2003
BIO
David Jenemann teaches courses in film and television theory, critical theory, genre, and global cinema. He has published essays on the film theories of Gilles Deleuze and Theodor W. Adorno as well as on the poet and novelist Kenneth Fearing. His areas of research interest include film and television, critical theory, modernism, and twentieth century literature. He is currently working on a book on anti-intellectualism in America.
Courses
- Seminar in Film and Television: Sports Broadcasting
- Seminar: Film Noir & Hardboiled Fiction
- Seminar: Hollywood Fictions
- Seminar: Documentary Evidence
- Seminar: Major Author Sinclair Lewis & Dos Passos
- Seminar in Literature: Themes, Genres, Folklore, Film Noir & Hardboiled Fiction
- Honors Seminar: The Pursuit of Knowledge
- Honors Seminar: Screening the Modern Film and TV Genre and the Auteur Contemporary Topics in Film and Television
- History of Television
- Film Criticism
- Readings and Research
- Film and Television Theory
- Intro Special Topics in Film and Television: Lane Series
- Intro Special Topics in Film and Television: Cinemas of the Fantastic
- Intro Special Topics in Film and Television: Intro to T.V.
- American Film Genres: Politics of Genres
- Study of Documentarys and Avante Garde Cinema: Avante-Garde
- Studies in Documentary and Avante Garde Cinema: New German Cinema
- Development in Motion Pictures I: Origin - 1930
- Development in Motion Pictures II: 1930 - 1960
- Development in Motion Pictures III: 1960 - 2000
Awards and Achievements
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, co-PI, $12,500 for a statewide lecture series on “Happiness,”
- CAS Small Grant Award, University of Vermont ($2000), 2015-2016
- Nominated For the Kroepsch-Maurice Teaching Award, 2004, 2006, 2009, (2010 declined)
- Nominated for the James Russell Lowell Award for Adorno in America (Modern Language Association 2008)
- Nominated for the Modernist Studies Association Book Award for Adorno in America (2008)
Summer Research Grant, The Humanities Center, University of Vermont (funds provided for a research assistant, 2006) - Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and Research Grant, University of Minnesota (2002 – 2003)
- DAAD Fellowship for Study and Research, Berlin (Summer, 2002)
- Graduate Research Partnership Program Summer Fellowship and Research Grant, University of Minnesota (Summer, 2002)
- Harold Leonard Memorial Film Study Fellowship and Study Grant, University of Minnesota (2000 – 2001)
- Comparative Studies in Discourse, Departmental Language Study Fellowship (1999, 2000)
- Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society, Departmental Fellowship (1995 – 1996)
- Thomas B. McCabe Achievement Award, Swarthmore College (1989 – 1993)
Area(s) of expertise
Film and television, critical theory, Modernism, 20th-century literature.
Bio
David Jenemann teaches courses in film and television theory, critical theory, genre, and global cinema. He has published essays on the film theories of Gilles Deleuze and Theodor W. Adorno as well as on the poet and novelist Kenneth Fearing. His areas of research interest include film and television, critical theory, modernism, and twentieth century literature. He is currently working on a book on anti-intellectualism in America.
Courses
- Seminar in Film and Television: Sports Broadcasting
- Seminar: Film Noir & Hardboiled Fiction
- Seminar: Hollywood Fictions
- Seminar: Documentary Evidence
- Seminar: Major Author Sinclair Lewis & Dos Passos
- Seminar in Literature: Themes, Genres, Folklore, Film Noir & Hardboiled Fiction
- Honors Seminar: The Pursuit of Knowledge
- Honors Seminar: Screening the Modern Film and TV Genre and the Auteur Contemporary Topics in Film and Television
- History of Television
- Film Criticism
- Readings and Research
- Film and Television Theory
- Intro Special Topics in Film and Television: Lane Series
- Intro Special Topics in Film and Television: Cinemas of the Fantastic
- Intro Special Topics in Film and Television: Intro to T.V.
- American Film Genres: Politics of Genres
- Study of Documentarys and Avante Garde Cinema: Avante-Garde
- Studies in Documentary and Avante Garde Cinema: New German Cinema
- Development in Motion Pictures I: Origin - 1930
- Development in Motion Pictures II: 1930 - 1960
- Development in Motion Pictures III: 1960 - 2000
Awards and Achievements
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, co-PI, $12,500 for a statewide lecture series on “Happiness,”
- CAS Small Grant Award, University of Vermont ($2000), 2015-2016
- Nominated For the Kroepsch-Maurice Teaching Award, 2004, 2006, 2009, (2010 declined)
- Nominated for the James Russell Lowell Award for Adorno in America (Modern Language Association 2008)
- Nominated for the Modernist Studies Association Book Award for Adorno in America (2008)
Summer Research Grant, The Humanities Center, University of Vermont (funds provided for a research assistant, 2006) - Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and Research Grant, University of Minnesota (2002 – 2003)
- DAAD Fellowship for Study and Research, Berlin (Summer, 2002)
- Graduate Research Partnership Program Summer Fellowship and Research Grant, University of Minnesota (Summer, 2002)
- Harold Leonard Memorial Film Study Fellowship and Study Grant, University of Minnesota (2000 – 2001)
- Comparative Studies in Discourse, Departmental Language Study Fellowship (1999, 2000)
- Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society, Departmental Fellowship (1995 – 1996)
- Thomas B. McCabe Achievement Award, Swarthmore College (1989 – 1993)
Areas of Expertise
Film and television, critical theory, Modernism, 20th-century literature.