Monthly Archive for June, 2011

Dina Iordanova is the Provost of St. Leonard’s College at the University of St. Andrews and founder of the St. Andrews Centre for Film Studies and its corresponding publishing house. She will be presenting on her work in a plenary presentation at the Second International Conference on the Image, 26-27 September 2011 at the Kursaal Congress Palace in San Sebastian, Spain, held in collaboration with the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Originally from Bulgaria, and having worked later on in Canada, the US and England, Professor Iordanova’s background is in philosophy and aesthetics. She joined St. Andrews as the University’s first Chair in Film Studies in 2004 and led the start of that Department’s dramatic climb up the research league tables to the best score achieved by a department in Scotland in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. She is the founder of the Centre for Film Studies and the publishing house St Andrews Film Studies. After chairing the Film Studies department and serving as a Director of Research for the top performing School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, the University asked her to serve as a Provost of the ancient St. Leonard’s college, with responsibility for doctoral students. More on Dina Iordanova…

Marijke de Valck is co-founder of the Film Festival Research Network (FFRN) and Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She will be a plenary speaker at the Second International Conference on the Image, 26-27 September 2011 at the Kursaal Congress Palace in San Sebastian, Spain, held in collaboration with the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Together with Skadi Loist, Marijke founded the Film Festival Research Network (FFRN). The FFRN is a loose connection of scholars working on issues related to film festivals, and aims to make festival research more available and connect diverse aspects and interdisciplinary exchange between researchers. A subgroup of the FFRN is the Film Festival Research Network work group within the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). Together with Skadi, Marijke compiled and published the first annotated, themed bibliography on film festival research, available online.

Marijke de Valck studied Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Utrecht University. She graduated cum laude with a thesis on transmedial storytelling in film, television and new media. More on Marijke de Valck…