-CURRICULUM VITAE
Independent media researcher.
Film Archivist for Royal Dutch Shell, responsible for researching and archiving 2000 industrial celluloid films and 2500 videos (in cooperation with EYE Film Institute and the British Film Institute). | 2018-2022
Financial administrative officer/DBC specialist for private psychotherapist/psychotherapy practises. | 2016-2022.
Media Manager/film editor at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, project Film Finale. Responsible for selecting and preparing of films/audio for digitization. | 2013-2015
Data researcher EYE Film Institute/Royal Dutch Shell, researching the possible transfer of films.
Post-doc VU University Amsterdam/Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision for the international HERA research project Technology, Exchange and Flow: Artistic Media Practices & Commercial Application | 2010-2013
Researching the dialogue between film form and style and the construction of a collective imaginary of innovation and technology within internationally distributed industrial films, 1950s-1960s.
Lecturer in Comparative Arts at Erasmus University Rotterdam | 2012
- Art and Culture in Media: Art and the Artist in Focus (BA)
- Bachelor Thesis Class (BA)
Supervisor BA thesis students
Lecturer in Comparative Arts & Media Studies at VU University Amsterdam | 2008-2011
- Cross-Media Storytelling (MA)
- Visual Culture: Paratexts (BA)
- Documentary Films: Theory and Practise (BA)
- Re-Mixing Media: Participatory Fandom (BA)
- Methodology and Historiography of History and Culture (BA)
- Introduction to Comparative Arts & Media Studies (BA)
- Academic Skills: Oral Presentation (BA)
Supervisor BA/MA thesis students
Organizer, in collaboration with Premsela Institute/Het Nieuwe Instituut , of the symposium Re-Mix: Creativity, Participation, and Ownership in a Digital Age | December 2010
Scriptwriter and member of the editorial staff for the production of three documentaries, Utrecht University: A Century of Royal Dutch Shell based on the research A History of Royal Dutch Shell (various authors, Oxford University Press, 2007) | 2006-2007
Editor in chief and co-author accompanying booklet A Century of Royal Dutch Shell (175.000 printed) | 2006-2007
Director short documentary A History of Shell Films | 2006-2007
PhD, Utrecht University, Faculty of Arts. Doctoral thesis: Beyond the Cliffhanger: Distributing Silent Serials. Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation. Supervisors: Prof. dr. W. Uricchio and Prof. dr. F. Kessler | December 2005
Coordinator of the Utrecht Seminar Media Studies, Utrecht University | 2004
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, Utrecht University | 2003-2004
- Seriality in the Media (MA)
- Visual Archives (concerning the role of archives in film history) (BA/MA)
Production of three short films: Coming Home, Icicles en Sporen | 1998-2000
-EDUCATION-
BKO (teaching qualification for teaching in higher education). VU University Amsterdam | September 2010
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
PhD Faculty of Arts. Doctoral thesis: "Beyond the Cliffhanger: Distributing Silent Serials. Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation." Supervisors: Prof. dr. W. Uricchio and Prof. dr. F. Kessler | December 2005
M.S. Department of Art History, Thesis: "Fantômas in the Arts" | June 2001.
On the influence of the fictional criminal character Fantômas in modern art.
M.S. Department of Liberal Arts: Film and Television Studies. Thesis: "Serials in the Netherlands: 1915-1925" | August
2000. On distribution patterns and popularity of silent film serials in the Netherlands.
-OTHER-
Affiliations
- Member of NECS (Network of European Cinema and Media Studies)
- Member of Domitor (international association dedicated to the study of early cinema)
Scholarships and awards
- Shortlist KNAW Culture and Identity scholarship, Science and the Public: Moving Images and the Frictions of Spectacle.
- NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) grants for archival research in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States.
- Best MA thesis in Media and Audiovisual Studies: Professor Doctor J.M. Peters Prize for the thesis Serials in the Netherlands, 1915-1925.
- Golden Flame nomination during the Dutch Film Festival for the film Sporen; winner Utrecht Video Festival for the film Sporen; incentive prize from the Utrecht Arts Center at the Utrecht Video Festival for the film Coming Home.
Independent media researcher.
Film Archivist for Royal Dutch Shell, responsible for researching and archiving 2000 industrial celluloid films and 2500 videos (in cooperation with EYE Film Institute and the British Film Institute). | 2018-2022
Financial administrative officer/DBC specialist for private psychotherapist/psychotherapy practises. | 2016-2022.
Media Manager/film editor at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, project Film Finale. Responsible for selecting and preparing of films/audio for digitization. | 2013-2015
Data researcher EYE Film Institute/Royal Dutch Shell, researching the possible transfer of films.
Post-doc VU University Amsterdam/Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision for the international HERA research project Technology, Exchange and Flow: Artistic Media Practices & Commercial Application | 2010-2013
Researching the dialogue between film form and style and the construction of a collective imaginary of innovation and technology within internationally distributed industrial films, 1950s-1960s.
Lecturer in Comparative Arts at Erasmus University Rotterdam | 2012
- Art and Culture in Media: Art and the Artist in Focus (BA)
- Bachelor Thesis Class (BA)
Supervisor BA thesis students
Lecturer in Comparative Arts & Media Studies at VU University Amsterdam | 2008-2011
- Cross-Media Storytelling (MA)
- Visual Culture: Paratexts (BA)
- Documentary Films: Theory and Practise (BA)
- Re-Mixing Media: Participatory Fandom (BA)
- Methodology and Historiography of History and Culture (BA)
- Introduction to Comparative Arts & Media Studies (BA)
- Academic Skills: Oral Presentation (BA)
Supervisor BA/MA thesis students
Organizer, in collaboration with Premsela Institute/Het Nieuwe Instituut , of the symposium Re-Mix: Creativity, Participation, and Ownership in a Digital Age | December 2010
Scriptwriter and member of the editorial staff for the production of three documentaries, Utrecht University: A Century of Royal Dutch Shell based on the research A History of Royal Dutch Shell (various authors, Oxford University Press, 2007) | 2006-2007
Editor in chief and co-author accompanying booklet A Century of Royal Dutch Shell (175.000 printed) | 2006-2007
Director short documentary A History of Shell Films | 2006-2007
PhD, Utrecht University, Faculty of Arts. Doctoral thesis: Beyond the Cliffhanger: Distributing Silent Serials. Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation. Supervisors: Prof. dr. W. Uricchio and Prof. dr. F. Kessler | December 2005
Coordinator of the Utrecht Seminar Media Studies, Utrecht University | 2004
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, Utrecht University | 2003-2004
- Seriality in the Media (MA)
- Visual Archives (concerning the role of archives in film history) (BA/MA)
Production of three short films: Coming Home, Icicles en Sporen | 1998-2000
-EDUCATION-
BKO (teaching qualification for teaching in higher education). VU University Amsterdam | September 2010
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
PhD Faculty of Arts. Doctoral thesis: "Beyond the Cliffhanger: Distributing Silent Serials. Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation." Supervisors: Prof. dr. W. Uricchio and Prof. dr. F. Kessler | December 2005
M.S. Department of Art History, Thesis: "Fantômas in the Arts" | June 2001.
On the influence of the fictional criminal character Fantômas in modern art.
M.S. Department of Liberal Arts: Film and Television Studies. Thesis: "Serials in the Netherlands: 1915-1925" | August
2000. On distribution patterns and popularity of silent film serials in the Netherlands.
-OTHER-
Affiliations
- Member of NECS (Network of European Cinema and Media Studies)
- Member of Domitor (international association dedicated to the study of early cinema)
Scholarships and awards
- Shortlist KNAW Culture and Identity scholarship, Science and the Public: Moving Images and the Frictions of Spectacle.
- NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) grants for archival research in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States.
- Best MA thesis in Media and Audiovisual Studies: Professor Doctor J.M. Peters Prize for the thesis Serials in the Netherlands, 1915-1925.
- Golden Flame nomination during the Dutch Film Festival for the film Sporen; winner Utrecht Video Festival for the film Sporen; incentive prize from the Utrecht Arts Center at the Utrecht Video Festival for the film Coming Home.