My name is Nico de Klerk. I am currently employed as a postdoc researcher in the four-year project

'Projecting knowledge: the magic lantern as a tool for mediated science communication in the

Netherlands, 1880-1940' (principal investigator Frank Kessler). Before this I worked at the Ludwig

Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Vienna, in the research project ‘Exploring the

interwar world: the travelogs of Colin Ross (1885-1945)’. This was preceded by my dissertation, for

this university, titled Showing and telling: film heritage institutes and their performance of public

accountability, which drew heavily on my twenty years' experience working as a collections researcher,

archivist, and curator at the then Nederlands Filmmuseum.

I am on the editorial board of The Moving Image: Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists

and Early Cinema in Review.