Henry Bacon is professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Helsinki (2004 – ). Previously he has worked as an assistant professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Oulu (1994-1999) and as a research fellow at the Finnish Film Archive (1999-2004), where he also acted as project manager in charge of designing a national radio and television archive. In 2011-14 he was in charge of the A Transnational History of Finnish Cinema Academy of Finland research project.