Amanda McQueen

Biography

Amanda McQueen is a media historian and archivist at the University of Arkansas Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture. She has an MA and PhD in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University. She is co-author of “Investigation of Cellulose Nitrate Motion Picture Film Chemical Decomposition and Associated Fire Risk” (2015), the white paper for the Wisconsin Nitrate Film Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; and author of “Flammable Workhorse: A History of Nitrate Film from the Screen to the Vault” in Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence (2019). In addition, McQueen has published on Classical Hollywood stardom, contemporary sound design norms, and the musical on stage and screen. She also works part-time as a cataloger for the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, Austin.