Jeff Menne is Head of the Department of English and Professor of Screen Studies. His research is focused on the history of American cinema, specifically in the postwar era--roughly the 1950s through the 1970s--and his current book project, The Avant-Garde University, considers the role that the university has had in developing media practices (from film and video to computer graphics). He has published two books, Francis Ford Coppola (University of Illinois Press, 2014) and Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture (Columbia University Press, 2019), co-edited an essay collection, Film and the American Presidency (Routledge, 2015), and published articles in such journals as Representations, Post45, and Cinema Journal. He was formerly Associate Editor of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.