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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. After having worked two years for an internet company, she joined the University of Amsterdam to conduct her Ph.D. on international film festivals, which she completed cum laude in 2006. Afterwards she taught courses in the film programme and the MA programme Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image at UvA, while working on a CMI-studies (communication, media and information) project for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Marijke now works as an assistant professor in the department of Media Studies. In 2009 she received the Boekman Disseratieprijs for her Ph.D.

Together with Skadi Loist, Marijke founded the Film Festival Research Network (FFRN). The FFRN is a lose connection of scholars working on issues related to film festivals, and aims to make festival research more available and connectdiverse aspects and interdisciplinary exchange between researchers. A subgroup of the FFRN is the Film Festival Research Network work groupwithin 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.

Film Festival Research Network

NECS

Annotated Themed Film Festivals Bibliography

Publications

- (2010) "<And the Winner is...> What happens behind the scenes of film festival competitions." International Journal ofCultural Studies.Vol 13, no. 3(May): 290-307.
- (2010) "De rol van filmfestivals in het YouTube-tijdperk." Boekman 83: 54-60.
- (2010) " <Echte> vrouwen willen geen makeover! Een analyse van het kritische anti-makeovermanifest Beperkt Houdbaar." Valck, Marijke de en Maryn Wilkinson. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, Vol. 13 No. 1: 5-17.
- (2010) "Thematic Bibliography on Film Festival Research - Update: 2009." Loist, Skadi and Marijke de Valck. Film Festival Yearbook 2: FilmFestivals and Imagined Communities. Dina Iordanova and Ruby Cheung (eds.). St. Andrews Film Studies, 2010: 220-258.
- (2010) “Reflections on the Recent Cinephilia Debates.” Cinema Journal, Vol.49 No. 2: 132-139.
- (2009) “Film Festival Studies. An overview of a burgeoning field.” Valck, Maijke de and Skadi Loist. Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit. Dina Iordanova and Ragan Rhyne (eds). St. Andrews Film Studies, 2009: 179-215.
- (2008) "'Screening' the Future of Film Festivals."A long tale of convergence and digitization." Film International, Vol. 6 No. 4: 15-23.
- (2008) "Cinephilia in Transition." Hagener, Malte and Marijke de Valck. Mind the Screen. Media Concept According to Thomas Elsaesser. Kooijman, Jaap, Patricia Pisters and Wanda Strauven (eds.) Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press: 19-31.
- (2007) Film Festivals. From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia, Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam.
- (2007) Sonic Interventions. Smith, Joy, Sylvia Mieszkowski and Marijke de Valck (eds.). Amsterdam : Rodopi Press.
- (2007) "The Multiple Faces of European Film Festivals." Meleiro, Alessandra (ed.). Cinema no Mundo: Indústria, Política eMercado. São Paulo : Escrituras Editora: 213-241.
- (2005) "The Sound Gag. The use of sound for comic effect in the films by Jacques Tati." New Review of Film and Television Studies, Vol. 3 no. 2 (November): 223-235.
- (2005)  Cinephilia: Movies, Love, Memory. Valck, Marijke de, Malte Hagener (eds.) Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam.
- (2005) "Down with Cinephilia? Long Live Cinephilia? And Other Videosyncratic Pleasures." Valck, Marijke de, Malte Hagener. Cinphilia: Movies, Love, Memory: 11-24.
- (2005) "Drowning in Popcorn at the International Film Festival Rotterdam ? The Festival as Multiplex of Cinephilia." Cinphilia: Movies, Love, Memory: 97-109.
- (2003) "The Reappearance of Europe. A Historical Overviewof the Film Festival Phenomenon." Iluminace, Vol. 15 no. 1: 31-51.

Committees & networks

• Board member of the Platform for Communication, Media and Information, hosted by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  
• Board member of Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis
  
• Chair Film Festival Reserach Network