Sanny Schulte’s research focuses on the field of animation and film studies, exploring aesthetic, sociocultural, transnational, and historical configurations of Otherness. Their research interests include queer cinema, eco-cinema, disability studies, animation aesthetics, and interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture.
Sanny’s dissertation project, “Animated Configurations of Otherness”, examines how animation configures (in)visibility, alterity, and the representation of racialized, queer, and disabled bodies. In particular, their research explores the aesthetic and epistemic possibilities of animated images and the ways in which animation reproduces, shifts, and reconfigures notions of embodiment, difference, and alterity. For this project Sanny Schulte received the Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg.
Sanny Schulte is 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 work, Sanny Schulte works in film production and has been involved in numerous feature film and television productions, including Schimmelreiter (2025) and the Netflix series 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.
