Dr. S. (Slava) Greenberg
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Biography
Slava Greenberg is an Assistant Professor of Film in the Department of Media Studies and Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Humanities. Previously, he was a Casden Institute postdoctoral fellow at University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts and Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Greenberg’s research bridges trans studies, disability studies—crip theory and Mad studies— and film theory to explore media—avant-garde cinema, documentary, animation, television, coffeeshop magazines, and psychedelic cinema—that reenact the past. Through trans-crip media archaeology, he traces the mycelium threads of pop culture back to their archival roots to challenge the configurations of ableism and cissexism.
He is the author of Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship (Indiana University Press, 2023), awarded the 2024 Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis Book Award. Greenberg is guest co-editor of the TSQ special issue Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory (May 2025) with J. Logan Smigles.
His articles and reviews have been published in Film Quarterly, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Animation, The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Review of Disability Studies, Jewish Film and New Media, Frames Cinema Journal, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Greenberg regularly contributes to field-defining anthologies, engaging topics such as trans cinema, disability media and culture, disability and documentray, accent studies, queer television studies, and animation studies.
Currently, he is writing two monographs: A Reel Painless Trip: Cinema, Psychedelics, and Trans-Mad Hirstory, which thinks cinema through the lens of chronic pain and its alleviation, and Gender Dysphoria: An Unauthorized Biography, which traces the mycelium threads of trans-crip histories and cultures of dysphoria from the Reed Erickson papers (and trans archive at large) to contemporary pop representations.Dr. Greenberg welcomes inquiries from potential RMA and PhD students pursuing research relevant to his interests.
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Publications
2025
- Greenberg, S., & Smigles, J. L. (2025). Toward a Trans[]crip Theory: Introduction . Transgender Studies Quarterly, 12(2), 152–161. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-11713354
- Greenberg, S., & Smigles, J. L. (Guest ed.) (2025). Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 12(2). https://doi.org/ISSN 2328-9252
2024
- Greenberg, S. (2024). Run from Your Parent’s House: Transfeminism and Abraham’s Blessing. In N. Rubel , & B. Krutzsch (Eds.), Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family (pp. 247–261). Rutgers University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18530953.18
2023
- Greenberg, S. (2023). Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship. Indiana University Press. https://iupress.org/9780253064509/animated-film-and-disability/
- Greenberg, S. (2023). Accenting the Trans Voice, Echoing Audio-Dysphoria. In P. Rangan, A. Saxena, R. Tharoor Srinivasan, & P. Sundar (Eds.), Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (pp. 229-244). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520389748-017/html
- Greenberg, S. (2023). How do Trans Men Make Babies? Transkids and Reproductive Fantasies. In H. Griffin (Ed.), Television Studies in Queer Times (1 ed., pp. 148-160). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003109044
2022
- Greenberg, S. (2022). Defining Mental Disorder Jerome Wakefield and His Critics edited by Luc Faucher and Denis Forest. DSQ: Disability Studies Quarterly Blog, 1-7. http://dsqblog.com/2022/07/03/defining-mental-disorder/
- Greenberg, S. (2022). Diminished Faculties: The Political Phenomenology of Impairment by Jonathan Sterne. Film Quarterly, 76(1), 113-114. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.113
- Greenberg, S. (2022). The General Audience Talks Back: Code of the Freaks and the Evolution of Hollywood Shaming Documentaries. Film Quarterly, 76(2), 31-38. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.2.31
2021
- Greenberg, S. (2021). Drawing the Line: Archiving Feminist Animation. The moving image, 20(1), 70-84. https://doi.org/10.5749/movingimage.20.1-2.0070
- Greenberg, S. (2021). Run from your Parent’s House: Transfeminism and Abraham’s Blessing. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 37(2), 25-41. https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.37.2.03
2020
- Greenberg, S. (2020). A Timeline of Our Own: Breaking Time in Spectrums. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 7(2), 288-295. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-8143491
- Greenberg, S. (2020). Disclosure: Toward Communal Trans Spectatorship. Docalogue. https://docalogue.com/disclosure/
- Greenberg, S., & Zanger, A. (2020). מבטים, גופים, מגדרים. Fireflies: Journal of Film and Television, 2.
2019
- Greenberg, S. (2019). Embodying Conflict: Representations of Hospitals and Seas in Israeli Film after the Second Intifada. Jewish Film & New Media : An International Journal , 7(2), 214-235. https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/jewishfilm/vol7/iss2/4/
2018
- Greenberg, S. (2018). Stories Our Bodies Tell: The Phenomenology of Anecdotes, Comings Out, and Embodied Autoethnographies. Review of Disability Studies: International Journal, 14(4), 1-16. https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/883
2017
- Greenberg, S. (2017). (Dis)abling the Spectator: Embodying Disability in Animated Documentary. In C. Brylla, & H. Hughes (Eds.), Documentary and Disability (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) 129-143. (pp. 129-143). Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-59894-3_9
- Greenberg, S. (2017). Disorienting the Past, Cripping the Future in Adam Elliot’s Claymation. Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2(12), 123-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847717716255
2016
- Greenberg, S. (2016). Look Back into the Future: The Israeli Cinema and the 1982 Lebanon War. Jewish Film & New Media : An International Journal , 4(2), 211-213. https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.4.2.0211
2014
- Greenberg, S. (2014). More Than Meets the Eye: The Haptic Spectatorship Experience of Short Avant-Garde Animation about Vision Disabilities. Frames Cinema Journal, 5, 1-14. https://framescinemajournal.com/article/more-than-meets-the-eye-the-haptic-spectatorship-experience-of-short-avant-garde-animation-about-vision-disabilities/
2023
Greenberg, S. (2023). Thinking with “Thinking with an Accent”: A Roundtable Conversation. Web publication or website https://campanthropology.org/2023/11/06/thinking-with-thinking-with-an-accent-a-roundtable-conversation/ [details]
2025
- Greenberg, S. (2025). Horror & Disability Zine. Web publication or website, Disability Action Research Kollective.
2023
- Greenberg, S. (2023). Dysphoria Matters: On the Broken Promise of “Sex Education”. Web publication or website https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dysphoria-matters-on-the-broken-promise-of-sex-education/
Prize / grant
- Greenberg, S. (2024). 2024 ASCA Book Award.
- Greenberg, S. (2024). UvA Faculty of Humanities' Research Innovation and Sustainability (RIS) Fund.
- Greenberg, S., Van Goidsenhoven, L. & Isenia, J. (2024). Decolonial Futures RPA Seed Grant "Addressing Access Fatigue: Archival Practices through a Critical Disability Lens".
- Greenberg, S. (2021). Fellowship for Visiting University-based Scholars and Professionals awarded by the Chair in Transgender Studies Research.
- Greenberg, S. (2021). University of Southern California’s Casden Institute, The School of Cinematic Arts..
- Greenberg, S. (2021). Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholars Award Second-Place Winner.
- Greenberg, S. (2020). University of Southern California’s Casden Institute, The School of Cinematic Arts, and The Center for the Study of the U.S. in Partnership with the Fulbright Program.
Membership / relevant position
- Greenberg, S. (2024-). Visible Evidence Diversity Equity & Inclusion Advisory Committee Member, Visible Evidence .
- Greenberg, S. (2023-2025). Co-chair of Queer and Trans Caucus, Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Media appearance
- Greenberg, S. (21-06-2024). Interview about Animated Film and Disability Hosted by Miranda Melcher on New Books Network [Web] New Books Network. Interview about Animated Film and Disability Hosted by Hosted by Miranda Melcher on New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/animated-film-and-disability
- Greenberg, S. (01-10-2023). Trans, Disability, Cinematic Representation, and the Resolution [Web] Whispers and Bites Podcast. Trans, Disability, Cinematic Representation, and the Resolution. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2197526/13692802?fbclid=IwAR1-w7L_otubUEdWDvG_hH9IatQ4L9ApY0ztD4HZ772JZERQNtBrt4xT3iA
- Greenberg, S. (23-09-2023). Disability in Animation [Other] The Pulse. Disability in Animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=bQPywriqnws
Journal editor
- Greenberg, S. (editor) & Zanger, A. (editor) (2018-2020). Fireflies: Journal of Film and Television (Journal). https://resling.co.il/product/%d7%92%d7%97%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%92%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9f-%d7%9e%d7%a1-2-%d7%9b%d7%aa%d7…
Others
- Isenia, J. (organiser), Van Goidsenhoven, L. (organiser) & Greenberg, S. (organiser) (2024). An Introduction to Disability Justice & Accessible Pedagogy, Amsterdam. This interactive workshop will introduce participants to the principles of the disability justice movement followed by discussion of ways to (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Greenberg, S. (consultant) (9-2019 - 12-2022). Gender and Diversity Consultant for Yuval Noah Harari's graphic novels and children's books: Sapiens: The Birth of Humankind (2020), Sapiens: The Pillars of Civilization (2021), Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World (2022), Sapianship (consultancy).
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Ancillary activities
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Greenberg, S. (2023). Thinking with “Thinking with an Accent”: A Roundtable Conversation. Web publication or website