Clara Auclair
Clara Auclair is a PhD candidate in visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester, in joint partnership with Université de Paris. She is the 2020-2022 George Eastman Museum fellow. Clara works on the history and memory of the French film industry settled in Fort Lee, New Jersey, in the 1910s. She is a graduate from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School for Film Preservation at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, and the Jean-Baptiste Siegel fellowship program at the Cinémathèque française in Paris, France. Clara is the francophone secretary of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. She has been working with the Digital Scholarship Lab since 2016.