Department: English

Office: Buttrick 3-01
Email: jeffrey.m.menne@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• BA University of Louisville
• MFA Colorado State University

Research Area

• Film Studies; 20th Century American literature

Current Research

• Recent Mexican Cinema; Hollywood in the 60s and 70s; Ideologies of technology

Current Courses

• Eng 102 10

Professional Societies

• American Studies Association
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies
• Midwest MLA

Professional Honors

• John M. Aden Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Writing, Vanderbilt English Department, 2004
• Center for Americas Fellow, 2005-2007

Publications

• Review of Richard Greenfield’s A Carnage in the Lovetrees in Double Room: A Journal of Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction, Fall 2003/Winter 2004
• Review of James Tate’s Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee in Pleiades Vol 24, No 1

Biography

I received an MFA in poetry at Colorado State Univ, then worked in publishing/editing before shifting into film studies ex officio as a PhD student at Vanderbilt.

Nashville has reasonable weather, if that's your thing.

Miscellaneous

One point on which I disagree with the Village Voice's 32nd (or 33rd) Pazz & Jop Poll: that Kanye West's album was the best of 2005

One point on which I agree with that Pazz & Jop Poll: that M.I.A.'s album was the second best of 2005