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Sophie Suma is a lecturer and researcher (contract-based senior lecturer) in Gender and Visual Culture Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Strasbourg (France). She specialises in the study of television series through the lens of gender and queer theory. She holds a PhD in Visual Arts and is a research member of the research team Contemporary Approaches to Artistic Creation and Reflection (ACCRA | UR 3402), as well as an associate researcher at the cultural studies laboratory LinCS UMR 7069. Sophie is Head of Research Training at ACCRA, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Officer. Her research cuts across several fields and research approaches: cultural studies, visual ecologies studies, queer TV studies, and gender and queer studies (queer ecologies). Her research focuses on epistemology, the cultural study of images and iconology in television series and contemporary media. She is currently exploring the visual culture of gender relations, fluid bodies and the visual processes of queerisation in TV series (Gender Ecology TV Series/ GETS). She is working on several iconological projects centred on representations of crips, neuroqueer and trans people. She also examines relationships of trust towards queer people, explored through a study of characters in post-apocalyptic TV series.