Mennel’s 2019 monograph Women at Work in Twenty-first-century European Cinema analyses the increased attention given to women’s work in films of various genres. Regular MAI contributor, Tessa Nunn, elaborates.
Tessa Nunn
Tessa Nunn is a PhD candidate in Romance Studies at Duke University, where she likewise is completing a certificate in feminist studies. Her dissertation, “Writing Women Dance,” examines representations of women dancing in nineteenth-century texts written by women. Additionally, she has written on works by Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, Ousmane Sembène, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Georges Rodenbach. Having taught in French and American high schools, middle schools and universities, she is passionate about feminist practices in pedagogy and curriculum-building.
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