Valentine Robert

Education and work experience

Trainings

PhD in Arts, University of Lausanne 2016

Master of Arts, Université de Lausanne 2006

Federal Maturity (option sciences), Gymnase du Bugnon (Lausanne) 2001

Work experience

Assistant Professor
Department of Film History and Aesthetics, University of Lausanne, since 2016

Lecturer
Department of Film History and Aesthetics, University of Lausanne, 2013-2016

Visiting Scholar
Department of Art history and Film studies, Université de Montréal, 2012-2013

Graduate Assistant
Department of Film History and Aesthetics, University of Lausanne, 2006-2011

FNS Searcher
Multidisciplinary research project « Uses of Jesus in Arts, Films and Literature during the 20th century » (cf. www.unil.ch/usagesdejesus), 2006-2009

Others activities

Exhibitions and Film programs Curator
"Tableaux vivants" - festival Le Giornate del Cinema muto (October 2017)

Film section of "Gustave Doré (1803-1880), master of imagination" - Musée d'Orsay & The National Gallery of Canada
(Feb.-May 2014 ; June-Sept. 2014, chief curator Philippe Kaenel)

"Films on Art" - Cinémathèque suisse (April 2011, co-curator François Albera)

"Jesus in Film" - Cinémathèque suisse (March-April 2009, co-curator Alain Boillat)

"Under influence. Hypnosis in contemporary Art" - Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (Nuit des musées, Sept. 2006, chief curator Pascal Rousseau)

Cultural mediation
Cofounder and head of the scientific mediation in Film studies at the Interface Sciences-Société of the University of Lausanne (2007-2011)

Pedagogical director of the High School Program at the Cinémathèque suisse (2010-2011)

Edition
Coeditor of "The image in early cinema" (Indiana University Press, in press)

Coeditor of "Le Film sur l'art : entre histoire de l'art et documentaire de création" (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015)

Collaboration to the edition of "Jésus en représentations. De la Belle Epoque à la postmodernité" (Infolio, 2011)

Part of the Editorial Board of "Décadrages, cinéma à travers champs" (2007-2012)

Webmaster (jahia, dropal, dreamweaver, lodel)

Competences

Societies, committees, commissions

Secretary of DOMITOR, the international society for the study of early cinema
Affiliated member of the GRAFICS
Member of the Décadrages Society (in the editorial board of the review from 2007 to 2012)
Member of l'Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma (AFRHC) ,
Member of l'Association suisse des historiens et historiennes de l'art (ASHHA/VKKS),
Member of the Magic Lantern Society, etc.
Casual expertise and peer-reviewing (in various panels or conference organization, proceedings, reviews, etc.)

Camerawoman-editor at the local television service (TVRL) (2001-2003)

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