Dr. S. (Slava) Greenberg
Faculty of Humanities
Departement Mediastudies
Visiting address
- Turfdraagsterpad 9
Postal address
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Postbus 94550
1090 GN Amsterdam
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Biography
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 served as a Casden Institute postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts and Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies. His research and practice, grounded in disability studies (particularly Crip theory and Mad studies), transgender studies, and feminist film theory, concern the potential of emerging media forms to produce embodied transformative experiences for audiences.
Greenberg is the author of Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship (Indiana University Press, 2023), which won the 2024 Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis Book Award. His articles have been published in journals such as 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, and Jewish Film and New Media. He regularly contributes to various field-defining anthologies, including those on disability and documentary, accent studies, queer television studies, and new media. Currently, he is writing his second book, Gender Dysphoria: An Unauthorized Biography, which examines the trans-crip histories and cultures of dysphoria from the Reed Erickson papers to contemporary pop representations.
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Publications
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. 247–61). 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]
2023
- Greenberg, S. (2023). Dysphoria Matters: On the Broken Promise of “Sex Education”. Los Angeles Review of Books. 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