Associate Professor
Division Head, Film and Television Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American Studies

Graduate Studies in Media Arts
Film & Television Studies

B.A., University of Arizona; A.M., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Arizona

Dr. Jenkins teaches courses in U.S. and Mexican film history, theory, and aesthetics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research involves the influence of art and material culture on Mexican cinema, the representation of domesticity in U.S. horror films, and local film history. She has presented her research on Mexican folk culture and film nationally and internationally. Recent publications examine the representation of homemaking and kitchen culture in the Gothic Horror film.

Passionate about film preservation and cultural heritage, Dr. Jenkins is also working to preserve and disseminate the Tucson-based Western Ways film archive at the Arizona Historical Society. In Fall 2007, she spent a week at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, studying archival projection techniques and nitrate film preservation.

She serves as Faculty Fellow at Coconino Hall, the campus residence where she lived as a freshman.

e-mail: jenkinsj@email.arizona.edu
office: 520.621.2446

Marshall Bldg, Room 224

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