Leen Engelen
Leen Engelen (°1977) studied Communication Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and at the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland). She got awarded her PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2005 with a thesis on the representation of the First World War in Belgian fiction films from the interwar period. After completing her PhD, she was assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam and at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. Currently, she is a lecturer in film history, semiotics and media theory at the Media & Design Academy (Catholic University College Limburg) and researcher at the Fand the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of the of the Catholic University Leuven. Leen has published on film history and visual culture in several national and international academic journals and is co-editor (with Roel Vande Winkel) of Perspectives on European Film and History (Academia Press, 2007). Her main research interests are colonial cinema, film promotion, Belgian cinema, film and historical representation and photography/picture postcards. Leen is Secretary General of the International Association for Media and History (www.iamhist.org).