Scholarly Interest Groups

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.

Scholarly Interest Group Coordinating Committee

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)

Contacts: Jacqueline Ristola, Christopher Taylor, and Grace Han (Graduate Student Representative)

Central/East/South European Cinemas

SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >

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

SIG Homepage > | SIG Member's Group Page/Join Now >

Contact: Mary Feld

Comedy and Humor Studies

SIG Homepage > | SIG Member's Group Page/Join Now >

Contact: Adrien Sebro, Grégoire Halbout, and Samantha Silver

Comics Studies

SIG Homepage > | SIG Member's Group Page/Join Now >

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

SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >

Contacts: Allison Cooper, Jenny Oyallon-Koloski and Suryansu Guha (Graduate Student Representative)

Documentary Studies

SIG Homepage > | SIG Member's Group Page/Join Now >

Contacts: Tory Jeffay, Laure Astourian and Anastasiia Gushchina (Graduate Student Representative)

Experimental Film and Media

SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >

Contacts: John Powers, Oksana Chevranova, and Srijita Banerjee (Graduate Student Representative)

Fan and Audience Studies

SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >

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

SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >

Contacts: Bernard Geoghegan, Deborah Levitt and Henry Gerba (Secretary)

French/Francophone

SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >

Contacts: Hannah Holtzman, Gemma King, and John Bennett (Graduate Student Representative)

Horror Studies

SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >

Contacts: Cain Miller, Geneveive Newman, Kate Russell and Alex Remington

Libraries and Archives

SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >

Contacts: Martin Johnson and Eric Hoyt

Media and the Environment

SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >

Contacts: Graig Uhlin and Patricia Ciccone

Media Industries

SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >

Contacts: Swapnil Rai, Peter C. Kunze, and Lesley Stevenson (Graduate Student Representative)

Media, Science and Technology

SIG Homepage > | SIG Members' Group Page/Join Now >

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)