{"id":16082,"date":"2018-04-26T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T19:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=16082"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:31:43","slug":"jennifer-cazenave","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/profile\/jennifer-cazenave\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Cazenave"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Research and Teaching<\/h2>\n<p>Professor Cazenave teaches courses in twentieth and twenty-first century French cinema, literature, and theory. She is also affiliated with the program in Cinema and Media Studies, the Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, and the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. She is the recipient of the 2025 Dean\u2019s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education.<\/p>\n<p>Her research interests include documentary cinema, disability studies, archive and memory studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, gender studies, and the Anthropocene. Her research has appeared in several edited volumes and journals, including SubStance, Cinema Journal, Memory Studies, and IdeAs \u2013 Id\u00e9es d\u2019Am\u00e9rique. She has also published essays in Los Angeles Review of Books. Her translations were most recently published in Cin\u00e9aste and Traffic: Revue de cin\u00e9ma. Professor Cazenave\u2019s research has been supported by numerous fellowships and grants, including an ACLS fellowship, a BUCH Junior Faculty Fellowship, a BU Diversity &amp; Inclusion Learn More Research Grant, and a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2025-2026, she will be a Visiting Residential Fellow at UConn Humanities Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Her first book,\u00a0<em>An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann\u2019s \u201cShoah\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(SUNY Press, 2019) was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2020 Best First Book Award presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. The book undertakes a comprehensive examination of the 220 hours of filmic material Claude Lanzmann excluded from his 1985 Holocaust opus. In retrieving alternative eyewitness accounts captured by the camera but ultimately left on the cutting room floor, this book offers a voice to testimonies from the margins, including gendered experiences of the Holocaust. A French translation of\u00a0<em>An Archive of the Catastrophe<\/em>\u00a0is forthcoming in 2026.\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Professor Cazenave is currently at work on a second book titled\u00a0<em>Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive\u00a0<\/em>(under contract with Columbia University Press).\u00a0The book\u00a0draws on neglected archives to investigate\u00a0how film and media not only constructed disability in the twentieth century but also worked against this social construction through acts of visual activism.\u00a0<em>Lessons in Seeing\u00a0<\/em>centers on four cases studies: (1) Nazi propaganda films; (2) home movies and snapshots in postwar France; (3) the \u201cstreet tapes\u201d of the early video revolution; and (4) Frederick Wiseman\u2019s four-part documentary series on the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind.<\/p>\n<h2>Selected Publications<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/rs\/files\/2018\/04\/Cazenave_Archive_final1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/rs\/files\/2018\/04\/Cazenave_Archive_final1-424x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17648 alignleft\" width=\"134\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/files\/2018\/04\/Cazenave_Archive_final1-424x636.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/files\/2018\/04\/Cazenave_Archive_final1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/files\/2018\/04\/Cazenave_Archive_final1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/files\/2018\/04\/Cazenave_Archive_final1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cazenave, J. (2019)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-6726-an-archive-of-the-catastrophe.aspx\"><i>An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann\u2019s <\/i>Shoah<\/a>. SUNY Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/16082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/16082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17646,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/16082\/revisions\/17646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}