About Ryan Lintelman, Curator of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Lintelman is a public historian and historian of American entertainment with a special interest in the history of film, television, and comedy. He explores how people living in the United States have interacted with popular entertainment, and how popular culture shapes and reflects historical debates and developments.
By probing the production, exhibition, reception, and cultural conversations about entertainment performance and products, Lintelman strives to engage a broad public in discussing Americans’ understandings of themselves and their place in the world throughout the nation’s history.