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Aurore Spiers

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Film & Media Scholar + Historian • Assistant Prof. in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts + Women's and Gender Studies Program, Texas A&M University • PhD '22 @UChicago • Edit. Contributor @WFPProject • Book Reviews Editor EVPC • she/her

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · May 9

Very excited to share that my book, ARCHIVING THE PAST, will be released from University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social in January 2026! Many thanks to Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social, Raina Polivka, and their team at UCP for making this possible.

www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...

Archiving the Past by Aurore Spiers - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 2d

See the full MSA conference program here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Boston this week! I'll be talking about early French women movie workers and engage in conversation with my dear colleagues Rutuja Deshmukh, Palita Chunsaengchan, and Kaveh Askari! @rutuja.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 28d

Truth. Read the whole thread.

Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 28d

We absolutely need to support academic freedom and faculty at beleaguered red state universities. While we can't do much beyond public shaming of officials and universities, one important way to help these faculty directly is to give them a fair shake when they apply for your open faculty positions.

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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Aug 14

Happy Birthday to Marie Epstein!

Marie Epstein – Women Film Pioneers Project

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

wfpp.columbia.edu

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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Aug 14

Happy Birthday to Alma Reville! "Best known as the wife and collaborator of Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville’s career as a screenwriter and editor has largely been overshadowed by that of her director husband."

Alma Reville – Women Film Pioneers Project

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · Jun 16

Read about how much fun we just had at the Women and Silent Screen conference in Brussels/Antwerp from the one and only @pamhutch.bsky.social Many thanks to the organizers and @wfhinetwork.bsky.social who created this vital space for feminist scholarship & mayhem!
silentlondon.co.uk/2025/06/15/c...

Catching trains, raising riots and trashing the kitchen: travels in feminist cinema

“Is this really what you want to learn from the past?” – Breaking Plates (Karen Pearlman, 2025) Let the train take the strain they say, and so I did, curating my own idiosyncratic, mostly silent, t…

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Jun 12

My head is spinning after all the *brilliant* presentations and screenings today at Women & the Silent Screen!!! 🎞️📚❤️ @wfhinetwork.bsky.social @aurspiers.bsky.social @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social @rutuja.bsky.social

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · Jun 10

Grateful to have the opportunity to present some research in progress at the Women and Silent Screen conference organized by @wfhinetwork.bsky.social in Brussels on Thursday, June 12! Full program here: static1.squarespace.com/static/62238...

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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · May 31

"As with many other early women filmmakers, Kathlyn Williams' success in front of the camera created opportunities behind it, but her reputation as a performer may well have limited those opportunities as well." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-... #BOTD

Kathlyn Williams – Women Film Pioneers Project

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · May 20

If you love dogs AND silent film, you might appreciate this new 2-disc Blu-ray collection dedicated to canines in silent films!!! With a superstar line-up of musical accompanists! 🎶🐶
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · May 16

When author Rob King uncovered a cinematic treasure in a NJ storage unit, he bought it all. What was inside? You'll have to read his guest blog post to find out: buff.ly/Qu8Qu9J #RadleyMetzger #RobKing #FilmHistory #EroticCinema #ArchiveDiscovery #LostAndFound #Cinephile #CultCinema #ClassicFilm

Graphic announcing a new blog post at cupblog.org. It contains the graphic for Author Post: Four Things I Found in an Adult Filmmaker’s Storage Unit: (#4 Left Me Shook) and a quote by Rob King

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · May 9

Archiving the Past by Aurore Spiers - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · May 8

New CFP!! Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture @epvcjournal.bsky.social about TEACHING SILENT CINEMA TODAY guest-edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and myself!! Please share!!

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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Apr 18

Happy Birthday to actress, director, producer & screenwriter Lucille McVey (aka Mrs. Sidney Drew)!

Mrs. Sidney Drew – Women Film Pioneers Project

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

wfpp.columbia.edu

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · Apr 11

My #SCMS25 book haul!! Excited to dive into new (and new to me) works by Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social, Alison Griffiths, Tom Slater, Alyssa Lopez, Rielle Navitski, Jie Li, and more! @ucpress.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social @templeunivpress.bsky.social

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Alix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social · Apr 6

#Incomplete (@ucpress.bsky.social) wins the 2025 @scmstudies.bsky.social Award for Best Edited Collection!! And is accepted by a gorgeous gaggle of contributors - a fitting expression of the book's collective feminist ethos 💫💫💫 @stefansolomon.bsky.social #SCMS25

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Apr 3

Buckle up, it's time for the Alice Guy panel!!!! 🎞️🎊 #SCMS25 @aurspiers.bsky.social

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · Mar 31

#SCMS25 is almost upon us! Please join me and my fellow panelists, Jane Gaines, Pam Wojcik, Carolyn Condon Jacobs, and @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social on Thursday, April 3 @ 2.15pm to discuss THE FILMS OF ALICE GUY BLACHE!

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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Mar 13

Happy Birthday to America actress, producer, screenwriter, and director Dorothy Davenport Reid!

Dorothy Davenport Reid – Women Film Pioneers Project

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · Mar 12

Happy Birthday to American film distributor Edna Williams!

Edna Williams – Women Film Pioneers Project

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Mar 11

Registration for Doing Women's Film and Television History 7 is now open!! This year's evocative theme is ‘Entangled Media: Past and Present’. 🎞️❤️ womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/d...

DWFTH 7 Conference registration OPEN

We are pleased to announce that the registration for Doing Women’s Film and Television History 7 is now open. Please register here: DWFTH7 Conference | University of Lincoln. This year’s them…

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SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus @scmsqtc.bsky.social · Mar 5

IMPORTANT UPDATE for QTC members participating in this year's conference.

#SCMS2025

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · Mar 4

Please consider signing this important petition from @jacobengelberg.bsky.social!

Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · Mar 3

attention film & media scholars! last month, The Movie Database, whose catalogue populates Letterboxd, removed hundreds of early moving image works in a new content policy. read why my colleagues & i think this is a mistake in our open letter. please consider signing: forms.gle/zCyZt9fMwYcj...

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · Mar 4

Many thanks to @tanyagoldman.bsky.social for inviting me to guest lecture about Céline Sciamma at Bowdoin College! 😀

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · Mar 3

Big merci to @aurspiers.bsky.social for Zooming in to my "Contemporary Women Filmmakers" class to discuss Céline Sciamma's work, persona, #MeToo movement in France.

Students watched GIRLHOOD independently + they'll watch PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE tonight.

Will discuss all in class on Wednesday!

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