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 the “Trans Speculative Media and Fiction” special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly (2025); Su Friedrich: Interviews (UP Mississippi, 2022); and Spectatorship: Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media (UT Press, 2017).

Samer’s feature documentary Tip/Alli, about the outing of popular science fiction author and rare “male feminist” James Tiptree, Jr. (as Alice B. Sheldon), is in post-production and expected to play at festivals in 2026 or 2027.

Contact:

jed.samer [at] asu [dot] edu

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