Dr Jacob Engelberg is Assistant Professor of Film, Media, and Culture in the University of Amsterdam Department of Media Studies and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, and he is the Director of the Film Studies MA. He holds a BA in English Literature and Film Studies and an MA in Sexual Dissidence from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in Film Studies from King’s College London.

Dr Engelberg’s research considers the contingencies of social and cultural signification in various media forms. Much of his research has explored relations between bisexuality and the cinema, specifically as these pertain to epistemology, hermeneutics, historiography, and form. Other areas of interest include pornography, Jewishness and film, mediations of bodily interiority, critical animal studies, and early cinemas.

Dr Engelberg’s work has appeared in the Journal of Bisexuality and Porn Studies, for which he edited a special issue on bisexuality and pornography. He has also written chapters for the following edited collections: Call Me By Your Name: Perspectives on the Film (Intellect 2024), A Companion to Ingmar Bergman (Wiley Blackwell 2025), Screening Adult Cinema (Routledge 2025), and Transnational Horror: Folklore, Genre, and Cultural Politics (Liverpool University Press 2025). He is currently completing a monograph proposing the theoretical utility of cinematic figures of bisexual transgression for queer film studies.

Dr Engelberg sits on the editorial advisory board for Routledge’s Screening Cinema book series.