Jacob F. Engelberg is Assistant Professor of Film, Media, and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. His research considers questions of social signification, knowledge, and desire in visual cultures. Much of his work has theorised 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.