Film Faculty Member Vito Adriaensens Announces New Publication

Adjunct Assistant Professor Dr. Vito Adriaensens and Dr. Victoria Duckett (Deakin University) recently announced the publication of a special issue on "The Actress-Manager and Early Film" in the journal Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film (Vol. 45, no. 1, 2018).

“Above all, we are interested in how female entrepreneurial engagement in new commerce, new markets and new forms of ‘theatre’ might help us interpret the rich and productive relationship between theatre and film."

In this issue of Ninteenth Century Theatre and Film, writers explore how female entrepreneurial engagement in new commerce, new markets and new forms of theatre might help us interpret the rich and productive relationship between theatre and film, in carefully chosen case studies from the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and the United States, tackling actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt, Betty Nansen, Eleonora Duse, Helena Cortesina, and Marion Davies.

Dr. Vito Adriaensens is a visiting scholar and adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts Film Department in New York, supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Project and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) through the University of Antwerp’s Research Centre for Visual Poetics. He holds a PhD in Theatre Studies and Intermediality from the University of Antwerp, was a visiting scholar at the University of Copenhagen, and has also taught at the School of Arts, University College in Ghent and the VU University in Amsterdam.

Dr. Victoria Duckett is the Director of Entertainment Production and Senior Lecturer in Screen and Design in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. Dr. Duckett was born in Hong Kong. She received her PhD and MA on scholarship in the School of Film, Theatre and Television at UCLA. During this time, she was also the recipient of the Charles Boyer Award (Sorbonne.)