Lesley Stevenson
Position title: Project Assistant
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Email: lcstevenson@wisc.edu
Lesley supports the WCFTR and the Media History Digital Library as a copyeditor, communications coordinator, and digitization assistant. Since 2020, she has worked on assignments ranging from the digitization of historic German film magazines Der Kinematograph and Die Lichtbild Bühne to the launch of the MHDL’s Twitter account to writing and editing social posts, grants, articles, and book chapters alongside her WCFTR and MHDL colleagues. Projects she has worked on include:
- “Love, Links, Archives: Saving and Sharing the Wendy Clarke Tape Collection,” project director Eric Hoyt — awarded $298,292 grant from the NEH
- “Love, Links, Archives: Saving and Sharing the Wendy Clarke Tape Collection,” by Eric Hoyt, Mary Huelsbeck, Amanda Smith, Lauren E. Wilks, and Lesley Stevenson — article in The Moving Image (forthcoming)
- “Searching for Similarity: Computational Analysis and the U.S. Film Industry Trade Press of the Early 1920s,” by Eric Hoyt, Ben Pettis, Lesley Stevenson, and Samuel Hansen — chapter in Global Movie Magazine Networks, eds. Eric Hoyt and Kelley Conway (forthcoming)
- Descriptions of new MHDL collections, including theatre/vaudeville, Spanish-language, and German publications