Jed Samer is a trans and queer media studies scholar and filmmaker. They recently joined the English Department at Arizona State University as an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies. Previously they taught in the Screen Studies program at Clark University.

Jed is the author of Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s  (Duke University Press, 2022). Jed has published articles and essays in The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Jump Cut, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, and Feminist Media Histories. They are the editor of the “Transgender Media” special issue of Spectator (Fall 2017), the first journal issue devoted to the study of transgender media, and the co-editor of Su Friedrich: Interviews (UP Mississippi, 2022) and Spectatorship: Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media (UT Press, 2017).

On a research leave for Fall 2024, Jed is busy at work on Tip/Alli, a documentary on the life, work, and influence of science fiction author James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon), and a new book project on trans comedy and humor, tentatively titled The Transgender Joke Book. Together with Cáel M. Keegan, they are editing a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly on speculative media and fiction.

Contact:

jed.samer [at] asu [dot] edu

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