Jennifer Cazenave

Jennifer Cazenave is an Associate Professor of French and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences. Her work bridges French studies with interdisciplinary fields including Cinema and Media Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Jewish Studies. She currently holds a visiting fellowship at UConn Humanities Institute (2025-2026) while on leave from BU.

Education: BA from Bard College, MA and PhD from Northwestern University and Université Paris Diderot. Her research focuses on documentary cinema, disability studies, Holocaust archives, and the Anthropocene. Major publications include An Archive of the Catastrophe (2019) analyzing excluded Holocaust testimonies in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, and her forthcoming Lessons in Seeing (Columbia UP) examines disability representation in 20th-century media archives.

Awarded 2025 Dean’s Excellence in Graduate Education Award and ACLS fellowship, her work has been supported by grants from the Charles H. Revson Foundation and BU’s Diversity & Inclusion Initiative. Her translations appear in Cinéaste and Traffic.