Intellect

Berber Hagedoorn, MA is a junior lecturer and Ph.D. student in Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She studied Media Studies at Utrecht University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and graduated cum laude in 2007. Her thesis 'Shared Textual Authority in the Found Footage Documentary: A Historical and Theoretical Analysis of The Maelstrom, Grizzly Man and My Architect' was shortlisted for the 2007–8 UU Faculty of Humanities Master Thesis Prize. She is currently working with the project 'EUscreen: Exploring Europe's Television Heritage in Changing Contexts' and researches the topic of 'Repurposing Television's Past: Re-Screening, History and Memory in the Multi-Platform Era.' Her research interests include the topics of the re-use of archival and historical footage in a variety of media platforms, television in transition, public/private history, memory, and the auto/biographical documentary.