Dr Victoria Duckett

Victoria works closely with international film festivals to restore, program, and promote public history. Most recently she has worked with Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (2019-2020) in collaboraiton with Prof. Richard Abel (U.Michigan), the EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam) and the Cinémathèque Française (Paris) on a program of films featuring the queen of the Paris musichalls, Mistinguett.. 

Career highlights since joining Deakin in 2014:

Service: 

2019: Acting Associate Head of School, Partnerships & International

2016-2018: Director, Entertainment Production

Awards:

2018: International Visiting Researcher Stipend (The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter), International scholar in residence, Cini foundation (Venice), Visitng Professor, Universita Cattolica, Milan.

2017: Visiting Professor, University of Pavia, Italy; Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin; Invited presentation, Columbia University Film and Media Studies Colloquium.

2016: Seeing Sarah Bernhardt: Performance and Silent Film named a 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Invited keynote lecture, Society for Theatre Research, Swedenborg Hall, London.

2015: Australian Academy of the Humanities Publication Subsidy.

2014: Visiting Fellowship, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.

• Film
• Gesture and performance,
• Women and screen industry
• Digital archives

Professional Memberships

AIRSC (Associazione Italiana per le Ricerche di Storia del Cinema) (since 2015),
American Society of Theatre Research (since 2016)EADH: European Association for the Digital Humanities), Melbourne Screen Studies (since 2017), Society for Cinema and Media Studies (since 1992), Women and Film History International (since 2007)

• film
• transmedia and performance
• innovative pedagogy.

• Film 
• Public History and digital archives
• Screen performance 

• Film
• Film/cinema

Feminisms, Medias, Histories Journal
University of California Press, Founding Editorial Board member, 2014–

Journal of Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
University of Manchester press, Editorial Board, 2010–present

Women and Film History International Steering Committee, 2010 – 2015

External referee, Assessor of Creative Works and Other Non-Traditional Research Outputs for Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2012–2014.

International referee for the Italian National Agency ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes), 2011–present

Global Digital Humanities Program Committee Referee, 2014-2016

External Assessor, Research Foundation–Flanders (National Fund for Scientific Research: Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek– Vlaanderen, FWO), 2016.

ARTICLE/BOOK MANUSCRIPT REFEREE
Cinegrafie
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
Feminist Media Histories
French Studies
Global Digital Humanities Conference Referee
Immagine (Journal of the Italian Association for Research in Film History)
Media Industries Journal
Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
Palgrave MacMillan (Victorian Studies)
Popular Entertainment Studies
Routledge, Gender Studies series
Senses of Cinema
Screening the Past

The Conversation, May 18, 2020, "International film archives are streaming up a storm during lockdown. Australia’s movie trove isn’t even online": https://theconversation.com/profiles/victoria-duckett-921158/articles

ABC Radio Adelaide: Jules Schiller, May 22, Drive. On film archives in the COVID-19 period.

2ser, Drive, May 18, 'Why you'll have trouble watching Aussie Archival Film',  https://2ser.com/australian-historical-films-where-are-they-and-why-cant-we-watch-them/

For Seeing Sarah Bernhardt (book) 2016

Interview on “Film Buff’s Hour” with Paul Harris on national radio (3RRR, May 7, 2016), http://www.rrr.org.au/program/film-buff-s-forecast?an_page=2016-05-07.

Deakin University:

• Member, School of Communication and Creative Arts Executive Research Committee, 2016-
• Member, Global digital publics
• Member, Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network
• Member Deakin Motion Lab
• Participant, Persona, Celebrity, Publics research group.

Professional affiliations:

• Women and Film History International
• Chief Investigator: Guglielmo Giannini: film, theatre and political activism in twentieth century Italy
• Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal, University of California Press, Founding Editorial Board member, 2014–
• Journal of Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, SAGE, Editorial Board, 2010–present

2019:

Deakin University Community Bank, $6000 for Geelong Arts Centre,  REFLEX: The Future of our Creative Community

Greater Geelong City Council, Creative Communities (Arts) Grant, Geelong Arts Centre,  REFLEX

2018: International Visiting Researcher Stipend, The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter, UK.

Invited international Scholar in Residence, Cini Foundation, San Giorgio, Venice 

Visiting Professor, Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage, Univeristy of Pavia, Italy.

Seeing Sarah Bernhardt: Performance and Silent Film named a 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

2016:  Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities (supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment), University of Texas at Austin.
Central Research Grant Scheme Award, Deakin Research, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University.

2015: Australian Academy of the Humanities Award

2014: Visiting Fellowship, “History, Cinema, Digital Archives.” Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra. 

Current:

Media matriarchs: the French stage celebrity and the development of transnational film (monograph). This project explores a generation of celebrity actresses who overlapped with and performed in early twentieth century film but who have been ignored in public history. 

Guglielmo Giannini: film, theatre and political activism in twentieth century Italy (Chief Investigator). Guglielmo Giannini was an Italian journalist, playwright, scriptwriter, film director, and politician active in Italy between the 1920s and 1960. In additional to an international conference and publicaitons, this project has developed an online Omeka digital archive.

In development:

Oral History Project: The Colonial Hong Kong Archive.