Lisa Kerrigan

Senior curator, television

Lisa Kerrigan

Lisa is the senior curator of television at the BFI National Archive. She joined the BFI in 2008, having previously worked at the BBC and at the British Universities Film and Video Council. Lisa has worked on projects including Unlocking Film Heritage, BFI Gothic, Play for Today at 50 and the ongoing Heritage 2022. She was a curator for the project Visions of Change: TV Documentary of the 1950s-1960s and produced the accompanying DVD box set. She has also contributed to BFI Screenonline, BFI compendiums and Sight and Sound magazine.

Lisa advises on academic research into the Archive’s television collections and is a member of the International Federation of Television Archives Media Studies Commission.