David Jenemann, Assistant Professor David.Jenemann@uvm.edu 319 Old Mill 802-656-3313

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. 

Education:

• Ph.D., 2003, University of Minnesota, Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
• M.A., 1998, University of Minnesota, Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society,
• B.A., 1993, Swarthmore College, major in English, minor in Political Science.
  

Selected Publications:

Adorno in America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

“The Home Theater of Organized Cruelty: Jackass Nation,” accepted for publication in Crossings8 (2006), 27pp.

David Jenemann and Andrew Knighton, “Time, Transmission, Autonomy: What Praxis Means in the Novels of Kenneth Fearing,” The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction, ed. Janet Galligani Casey, (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004) 172-194.

“The Hole is the True: Deleuze-Cinema-Utopia-Adorno,” Polygraph 14 (2003) 77-101. 

“Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio and The Psychological Techniques of Martin Luther Thomas’ Radio Addresses,” (review) Cultural Critique 50 (winter, 2002) 223-229.

Selected Presentations:

 “Camouflage Work: The Hidden Subject of Modernity,” ACLA, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (March 2006).

“A Machine like No Other: The Individual Space of Precisionism,” Modernist Studies Association 7, Chicago (November, 2005).

“Frankfurt Goes to Hollywood: Adorno Makes Movies” Visible Evidence XII, Concordia University, Montreal (August 2005).

“Adorno in Sponsor-land: The Physiognomyof the Radio,” The Space Between: Technology and Culture 1914-1945, McGill University, Montreal (May, 2005)

 “Unprotected Waters: The Ethics of Ambivalence,” Circulations: The Ins and Outs of Exchange, York University, Toronto, ON (March, 2005).

  “‘Below the Surface’: Adorno’s Failure of Vision,” Marxism and the World Stage, Amherst, MA (November, 2003).

Sample Courses:

FTS 95 – TAP Seminar Cinemas of The Fantastic, Fall 2005
FTS 123 – Global Cinemas—Oppositional Cinemas, Fall 2005
Film 162 - The Politics of Genre, Spring, 2005
ENGS 350 – Introduction to Literary Theory: Theory at Sea, Fall, 2004
ENGS 95 – Introduction to Television, Fall, 2004
Eng 196 -Theories of Television, Spring, 2004
Eng 281 - Hollywood Fictions, Spring and Summer, 2004
Eng. 86 - Critical Approaches to Literature, Fall, 2003 (2 sections)
Film 107 - Basic Concepts of Cinema and Television, Fall, 2003

All Courses Taught