Margaret D Hennefeld

Contact Me

mhennefe@umn.edu
612-624-8099

Cultural Stdy/Comparative Literature
216 Pillsbury Dr SE
235 Nicholson Hall

Affiliations

• Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
• Liberal Arts: Moving Image Studies

Links

• Academia.edu profile

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D. : Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2014.
• B.A. : Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.

Specialties

• Comedy
• Film theory / historiography
• Feminist theory / gender politics
• Silent cinema
• Critical theory
• Popular culture
• Media studies

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Co-Editor of Overview Essays: Women Film Pioneers Project , 2016
• Co-Curator: "Genders of Laughter" Film Program and Symposium (TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto) , Oct. 2014
• Co-Organizer: Feminist & Women's Media Festival (Brown University, Providence, RI) , March, 2014
• Steering Committee: Comedy and Humor Studies Scholarly Interest Group (Society of Cinema and Media Studies) , 2014-present
• Curator: "The Slapstick Show" (Magic Lantern Film Series, Providence, RI) , April, 2012
• Co-Organizer: Terror and the Inhuman Conference (Brown University, Providence, RI) , Oct. 2012
• Co-Organizer: The Women's Film Festival (Providence, RI) , Oct. 2010
• Editorial Assistant: differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies , 2013 - 2014

Research

• Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes: (forthcoming, Columbia University Press)
• Abject Comedy: volume co-editor

Creative

• Screenwriter: "Distracted Spectators",
• Film Critic / Writer: Slant Magazine, Film Comment, Highbrow,

Publications

• Death from Laughter, Female Hysteria, and Early Cinema: Hennefeld, Margaret, Duke University Press, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 27.3 45-92, 2016. Link
• Women's Hats and Silent Film Spectatorship: Between Ostrich Plume and Moving Image: Hennefeld, Margaret, Indiana University Press, Film History: An International Journal, 28.3 24-53, 2016. Link
• Laughter in the Age of Trump: Hennefeld, Margaret, Flow Journal: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, 2016. Link
• Slapstick Comediennes in Transitional Cinema: Between Body and Medium: Hennefeld, Margaret, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, 86 , Sept., 2014. Link
• Destructive Metamorphosis: The Comedy of Female Catastrophe and Feminist Film Historiography: Hennefeld, Margaret, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 36 , Nov., 2014. Link
• Miniature Women, Acrobatic Maids, and Self-Amputating Domestics: Comediennes of the Trick Film: Hennefeld, Margaret, Early Popular Visual Culture, 13.2 , May, 2015. Link
• The Politics of Hyper-Visibility in Leni Riefenstahl's 'The Blue Light': Hennefeld, Margaret, Women and the Silent Screen Conference VI Proceedings, 2013.
• The Geopolitics of Narrative Parody in Ulrike Ottinger's 'Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia': Hennefeld, Margaret, Media Fields, 3 , Summer 2011. Link
• Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913): Expanded Essay for the National Film Registry: Hennefeld, Margaret, Library of Congress Website. Link
• The Exploits of Elaine (1914): Expanded Essay for the National Film Registry: Hennefeld, Margaret, Library of Congress Website. Link
• Cissy Fitzgerald: Career Profile: Hennefeld, Margaret, Women Film Pioneers Project. Link
• Book Review, "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning": Hennefeld, Margaret, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, May 2013. Link
• Book Review, "The Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay": Hennefeld, Margaret, Journal of American Humor Studies, 2014. Link

Awards

• IAS Residential Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Fall 2016
• Jack Rosenbalm Prize for American Humor (American Humor Studies Association), 2016
• Faculty Imagine Fund Recipient, 2016
• Annette Kuhn Essay Award (Screen Journal), 2015
• Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Jackman Humanities Center, University of Toronto, 2014 - 2015
• Program for the Arts Grant, Jackman Humanities Institute , 2014
• Mary J. Langlois Dissertation Prize (Brown University) , 2014
• Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship to lead research workshop on "Image Spectrality", 2011 - 2012
• Pordenone Giornate Collegium Scholarship , 2012 - 2013
• Pembroke Center Graduate Fellowship (Brown University), 2010 - 2011
• Jack Rosenbalm for American Humor, Feb., 2016
• Faculty Residential Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Fall 2016