Cyd Sturgess

Cyd Sturgess is an Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at Utrecht University’s College of Humanities, specializing in Media and Performance Studies. Their research focuses on transgender, non-binary, and gender-non-conforming filmmakers and film festivals in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Sheffield, emphasizing historical development and identity/community-building through archival practices.

• Queer Theory
• Transgender Studies
• Cultural History
• Documentary Storytelling
• German/Dutch Pre-WWII Gender Discourses
• Queer Femininity
• Transcultural Sexual Knowledge

Key publications include the monograph Different from the Others (2023), analyzing queer femininity and female desire in interwar Amsterdam and Berlin. Their peer-reviewed works span topics like lesbian literature in Dutch, Weimar Germany’s lesbian periodicals, and theories of sexual inversion.

• Leverhulme Postdoctoral Researcher (2022–2024)
• Wolfson Doctoral Researcher (2013–2017)

Cyd teaches courses such as Gender, Visuality and Technology and Research Seminar Gender and Postcolonial Studies, integrating public engagement and documentary-making skills. Their expertise includes German, Dutch, and Swedish languages, alongside education development and queer archival methodologies.