Slava Greenberg is an Assistant Professor of Film in the Department of Media Studies at University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Humanities and Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. Previously, he was a Casden Institute postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts and Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Greenberg’s research bridges disability studies—particularly Crip theory and Mad studies—transgender studies, and trans-feminist film theory to explore avant-garde cinema, experimental documentary, animation, and psychedelic cinema. 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. 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 disability and documentary, accent studies, queer television studies, disability media studies, and animation studies. His co-edited TSQ special issue (12:2), Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory, is forthcoming in November 2025.

Currently, he is writing two monographs: Reel Pain/less: Psychedelic Cinema and Trans-Mad Hirstory, which thinks cinema through the lens of chronic pain, and Gender Dysphoria: An Unauthorized Biography, which traces the trans-crip histories and cultures of dysphoria from the Reed Erickson papers to contemporary pop representations.