Hello! I am a film scholar and archival film curator specializing in critical, interdisciplinary, and experimental approaches to contemporary silent film exhibition with a focus on women’s film history and cinematic labor.
My writing has appeared in Feminist Media Histories, The Moving Image, and the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, among other outlets. I have curated film series, programs, and one-off screenings at various venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, Eye Filmmuseum, and the Netherlands Silent Film Festival.
I have lectured on film heritage practice and archival curatorship at the University of Amsterdam, organized conferences and academic events, and moderated panels and introduced screenings at different venues.
I am also the project manager and an editor of the Women Film Pioneers Project, a digital scholarly publication and archival resource dedicated to advancing research on women’s behind-the-scenes contributions to silent film industries and cinema cultures worldwide.
I currently serve as board president for Women and Film History International, a scholarly and archival organization and network dedicated to the study of women’s global film history. Among other things, we are behind the biennial Women and the Silent Screen conferences.
Publicity shot, girl with Edison home projecting kinetoscope. Preserved in the archives of the Thomas Edison National Historical Park.