Wanda Strauven is a film and media scholar whose research focuses on media archaeology, marginal film practices, touch-based media, feminist labs, textile technologies, and children’s play with media. She holds a PhD in Languages and Literatures from the University of Antwerp and a Habilitation degree in Media Studies from Goethe University Frankfurt. After a twelve-year appointment at the University of Amsterdam, she was visiting professor and lecturer at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Goethe University Frankfurt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, University of Udine, and Yale University. Since Spring 2023, she is teaching at the School of the Arts at Columbia University. She is co-editor of the book series Cinema Cultures in Transition—previously known as Film Culture in Transition—at Edinburgh University Press. She edited several volumes, most notably The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded (Amsterdam University Press, 2006), and special issues for journals such as Cinéma & Cie, NECSUS, and New Review of Film and Television Studies. Her most recent books are Touchscreen Archaeology: Tracing Histories of Hands-On Media Practices (meson press, 2021), which won the 2022 Limina Award for Best International Cinema Studies Book, and Children Reinventing Cinema: Snapshots from the Early 21st Century (co-authored with Alexandra Schneider) (meson press, 2025).