Dr. Marijke De Valck

Biography

Marijke de Valck is an associate professor in Film Media Studies at Utrecht University. She earned her PhD from the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis in 2006, graduating with honors. Her research focuses on transnational media cultures, media industries, and art cinema. De Valck examines the role and network of film festivals employing a combination of critical theory and textual analysis, along with social science approaches. Her work also delves into cultural analysis and curatorial conceptual reflection related to media arts, with a particular interest in resilience. She has published extensively on topics such as art activism, archiving, television, and world cinema. In 2008, she co-founded the Film Festival Research Network, which connects over 600 researchers and practitioners in the field. De Valck is also a co-founder of the NECS workgroup on Film Festivals and contributes to the NECSUS journal, as well as co-editing a book series on Film Festivals with Palgrave Macmillan. She serves on the advisory board of the journal Film Studies published by Manchester University Press and the book series Remapping World Cinemas: Regional Global Transformations from Routledge.

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