Rox Samer is a media studies scholar, remix artist, and documentary filmmaker. Rox currently teaches at Clark University as an Assistant Professor of Screen Studies in the Visual and Performing Arts Department.
Rox has published in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Jump Cut, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, and Feminist Media Histories. They are the editor of Spectator 37.2 (Fall 2017), the first journal issue devoted to the study of transgender media, and the co-editor of Spectatorship: Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media (UT Press, 2017). Their book manuscript, Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, is under contract with Duke University Press.
Rox is currently developing a feature-length documentary, Tip/Alli, on the life, work, and influence of science fiction author James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon).
Rox is originally from Eugene, Oregon.
Contact:
rsamer [at] clarku [dot] edu
