Sandra Becker is a lecturer in the department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Groningen. Sandra's research interests lie at the intersections of Culturual Studies, TV and Film Studies and Gender Studies. She has designed and taught seminars on U.S. television and film, Mexico’s audiovisual landscape, masculinity portrayals in Latin American film and given guest lectures on U.S. popular culture and masculinity studies.

Her interdisciplinary PhD project "Fathers of the Nation: U.S. Gender History, Racial Capitalism and White Fatherhood in Contemporary TV Series (2001–2016)" approaches early 2000s TV series such as Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and Mad Men as cultural-historic artefacts and analyses the depiction of their white father protagonists against the backdrop of socio-economic and political events and gendered discourses at the beginning of the twenty-first century. She has co-edited the collection Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse (2021). In her own chapter titled "'Time is of the Essence, Doctor': Twenty-FirstCentury (Post-)Apocalyptic Fiction, White Fatherhood and Anti-Intellectual Tendencies in FX’s The Strain," she reflects on viral vampires, anti-intellectualism and white fatherhood.