Scholarly Interest Groups (SIGs) are groups comprised of SCMS members who share an interest in a particular medium, a genre, a methodology, the media of a particular nation or region, or any other subcategory within the rubric of cinema and media
studies. SIGs are formed and maintained to provide fellowship and networking opportunities for their members, and to support scholarship, pedagogy, and mentoring in that particular area within SCMS.
For general information or information specific to organizing a new Scholarly Interest Group, SCMS members can reference the SCMS bylaws and policies relevant to SIGs or contact
the SIG liaison Maria Suzanne Boyd.
A document explaining the responsibilities of the SIG Coordinating Committee chairs and SIG chairs can be found here.
Report Election Results
It is important for each caucus, SIG, and coordinating committee to notify the SCMS Office regarding election results. This allows theo ffice to have an accurate record of all elected individuals for your caucus, SIG, or committee. Please complete
the election results form after your election to ensure all records and the website is up to date. Please submit one form per person.
Funding Requests
For more information about SIG funding and to find instructions for submitting receipts, please see the SIG Funding Request Form.
The function of the Scholarly Interest Group Coordinating Committee is to represent and communicate the respective and collective interests of the SCMS Scholarly Interest Groups (SIGs) to the SCMS Board of Directors and to facilitate
collaborative communication between and amongst the SIGs for the purpose of organizing (cross-)SIG events for the annual SCMS conference as well as other activities and events. The co-chairs of the SIG Coordinating Committee are current co-chairs
of one of the scholarly interest groups; they are elected by SIG members and serve staggered three-year terms.
Contacts: Bärbel Göbel-Stolz and Dimitrios Latsis
Current Scholarly Interest Groups (Total 39)
Activist and Revolutionary Film and Media
SIG Homepage> | SIG Members' Group Page / Join Now >
Contacts: Sarah Hamblin, Jamie Theophilos, and Chris Robé
Adult Film & Media
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Contacts: James Anderson, Nguyen Tan Hoang and Emalydia Flenory
Animated Media
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Contacts: Jacqueline Ristola, Christopher Taylor, and Grace Han (Graduate Student Representative)
Central/East/South European Cinemas
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Contacts: Eszter Polonyi, Zoran Samardzija and Khara Lukancic
Children's and Youth Media and Culture
SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >
Contacts: Barbara Jane Brickman, Mary Celeste Kearney, Yasmin I. Mendoza (Graduate Student Representative)
CinemArts
SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >
Contacts: Hayley O'Malley, Brian Jacobson, and Ziru Chen and Sophie Holzberger (Graduate
Student Representatives)
Classical Hollywood
SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >
Contact: Luci Marzola, Paul Monticone, and Kallan Benjamin (Graduate Student Representative)
Cognitive/Analytic
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Contact: Mary Feld
Comedy and Humor Studies
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Contact: Adrien Sebro, Grégoire Halbout, and Samantha Silver
Comics Studies
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Contacts: Troy Bordun, Laura Felschow, and Alex Harasymiw (Graduate Student Representative)
Critical Media Pedagogies
(previously Media Literacy and Pedagogical Outreach)
SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >
Contacts: Co-chairs: Jennifer Blaylock, Stephanie Brown, and Jean Ketterling
Steering Committee: Jean Ketterling, Isra Ali, Nicky Hentrich, Lisa Jacobson,
Amanda Greer, and Regina Lee, Grad Rep: Tamar Hanstke
Digital Humanities and Videographic Criticism
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Contacts: Allison Cooper, Jenny Oyallon-Koloski and Suryansu Guha (Graduate Student Representative)
Documentary Studies
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Contacts: Tory Jeffay, Laure Astourian and Anastasiia Gushchina (Graduate Student Representative)
Experimental Film and Media
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Contacts: John Powers, Oksana Chevranova, and Srijita Banerjee (Graduate Student Representative)
Fan and Audience Studies
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Contacts: Bethan Jones and Lori Morimoto (Co-Chairs), Jaclyn Zhou (Graduate Student Representative) Simone Driessen,
Liang Ge (Steering Committee) and Bridget Kies (social media coordinator)
Film and Media Festivals
SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >
Contacts: Lucy Pizaña, Antonio Peláez Barceló, Betsy Walters (Graduate Student Representative)
Film Philosophy
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Contacts: Bernard Geoghegan, Deborah Levitt and Henry Gerba (Secretary)
French/Francophone
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Contacts: Hannah Holtzman, Gemma King, and John Bennett (Graduate Student Representative)
Horror Studies
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Contacts: Cain Miller, Geneveive Newman, Kate Russell and Alex Remington
Libraries and Archives
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Contacts: Martin Johnson and Eric Hoyt
Media and the Environment
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Contacts: Graig Uhlin and Patricia Ciccone
Media Industries
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Contacts: Swapnil Rai, Peter C. Kunze, and Lesley Stevenson (Graduate Student Representative)
Media, Science and Technology
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Contacts: Rahul Mukherjee (Co-Chair), Hannah Zeavin (Co-Chair), Henry Osman (Graduate Student Representative), Mary Hegedus (Graduate Student Representative), Patrick Brian Smith (Member at Large) and, Gary Kafer (Member at Large)
Nontheatrical Film and Media
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Contacts: Florian Hoof, Sophia Gräfe, I-Lin Liu (Graduate Student Representative)
Nordic Studies
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Contacts: Helle Kannik Haastrup, Daniel Humphrey and Maxine Savage (Graduate Student Representative)
Oscar Micheaux Society
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Contacts: Jeffrey Hinkelman
Performance and Stardom
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Contacts: Aaron Taylor, Amanda Konkle, Maggie El-Masry, Ning Zhang
Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting
SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >
Contacts: Stacey Copeland, Annie Sullivan, Fiona Boyd, Alexander Rudenshiold
Silent Cinema
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Contacts: Aurore Spiers, Carolyn Jacobs, and Eileen DiPofi (Graduate Student Representative)
Sound and Music Studies
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Contacts: Landon Palmer, Phoebe Macrossan, and Ravi Krishnaswami (Graduate Student Representative)
Sports Media
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Contacts: Ethan Tussey, Brett Siegel, Travis Vogan, Branden Buehler and Kathryn Hartzell
Television Studies
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Contacts: Molly Schneider, Kayti Lausch, Matt Boyd Smith (Faculty Representative) and Cameron Brown (Graduate Student Representative)
Television and Radio History
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Contacts: Aniko Bodroghkozy, Allison Perlman, Jennifer Blaylock and Peter Johnson
Transmedia Studies
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Contacts: Bärbel Göbel-Stolz, Peter Cullen Bryan, and Adrienne Domasin (Graduate Student Representative)
Transnational Cinemas
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Contacts: Nicole Wallenbrock, William Costanzo and Mohammed Mizanur Rashid (Graduate Student Representative)
Urbanism/Geography/Architecture
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Contacts: Anna Viola Sborgi, Ipek A. Celik Rappas, and Sophia Abbey (Graduate Student Representative)
Video Game Studies
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Contacts: Jack Murray, James Fleury, Evan Torner, David Kocik, Luke Hernandez,
and Hibby Thach (Graduate Student Representatives)
War and Media Studies
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Contact: Cortland Rankin, Nathan Blake, and Maximillian Berwald (Graduate Student Representative)
Women in Screen History
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Contacts: Denise McKenna