Dr. Véronique Sina is a media studies scholar at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and specialises in Gender and Queer Studies, Intersectionality, Intermediality, Comics Studies, Identity Studies and Jewish Visual Culture Studies. She received her PhD at Ruhr University Bochum. Her dissertation at the Department of Media Studies was published as "Comic – Film – Gender. The (Re-)Mediation of Gender in Comic Book Movies" (transcript, 2016). From 2017 to 2019 she was an associate member (Postdoc) of the DFG graduate research training group "Das Dokumentarische. Exzess und Entzug" (Documentary Practices: Excess and Privation). Since 2020 she is an associate member of the research group "Queery/ing Popular Culture" at the University Siegen and an associate member of the "SELMA STERN ZENTRUM für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg". She is Co-Founder and Chairwoman of the Committee for Comics Studies (AG Comicforschung) of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM). From 2018 to 2020 she was the vice president of the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor). She is Co-Editor of the interdisciplinary book series "COMICSTUDIEN" (de Gruyter).