Sanny Schulte, M.A.

Doctoral Researcher and Research Associate
Institute of Media Studies, University of Tübingen
Production Coordination & Assistant Director, Film Project 550 Years of Tübingen
Editorial Team, Open-Access Journal Colour Turn

Sanny Schulte’s research focuses on the field of film and animation studies, exploring aesthetic, social, transnational, and historical configurations of otherness. Their research interests include queer cinema, eco-cinema, disability studies, animation aesthetics, and interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture. Their dissertation project “Animated Configurations of Otherness” examines how animation reconfigures (in)visibility, alterity and representation of ethnic, queer, disabled bodies. For this dissertation project, Sanny Schulte was granted the Landesgraduierteförderung Baden-Württemberg scholarship.
They are part of the editorial team of the open-access journal Colour Turn, where they are also responsible for the Colour Research Colloquium (CRC). In addition to academic research, Sanny Schulte has worked in numerous film productions, including Schimmelreiter (cinema release fall 2025) or Netflix’s Sleeping Dogs (2023), mostly as an AD. Currently, Sanny is part of the production and director’s team for the 550 years of University of Tübingen anniversary film.

• Animated Encounters with Oceanic Others (2025), Sea Mediations: Hydro-Criticism and Tidal Thinking Symposium at Universiteit van Amsterdam

• B.A. Media Studies and Rhetoric, University of Tübingen
  Thesis: ‘Die böse Ersatzmutter’ – Eine Studie zur Darstellung weiblicher Antagonistinnen in animierten Kinderfilmen (1,0) [eng.: ‘the evil substitute mother’ – a study on the portrayal of female antagonists in animated children’s films]
• Exchange semester at the University of Klagenfurt (Gender, Porn, and Game Studies)
• M.A. Film Studies, University of Amsterdam 
  Thesis: Making Kin with the Oceanic Other in Animated Aquatic Eco-Cinema (8,5)