• North American Studies
• Media and Cultural Studies

• New Media
• Social Semiotics
• Visual Culture

• Psychoanalysis
• Posthumanism
• Melodrama Studies
• Narrative Theory
• Hollywood Cinema
• Gender in Cinema
• Liminality, Migration, Transculturalism

• BA English Literatures and Languages; Subsidiary in Psychology; San Francisco State University;  San Francisco, California (1995)
• MA English Literatures and Languages; City University of New York; New York;  Supervising professor: David Richter   (1998)
• PhD American Studies; University of Zurich;  Zurich, Switzerland;  Supervising professor: Elisabeth Bronfen   (2004)

Assistent - Prof. Dr. Alan Robinson (2004-2009)

Adjunct Lecturer in English for Business Studies (2003-2009)

Adjunct Lecturer in Visual Culture and New Media (2008-present)

Research Assistant in English Studies (2015-2017)

MA

• The Work of Art: Diplomacy and the Arts in Migration Society
• Critical Theories: Posthumanism
  
• New Cinema Auteurism: A Survey of Contemporary Film Directors
• Economies of Feeling: Melodrama as Genre and Global Social Narrative

BA

• The Stories Films Tell: Narratology and Film
• Film and Psychoanalysis
  
• Visual Culture Studies: Image – Text – Meaning
  
• Views on Film: Critical Approaches to the Moving Picture

Public Lectures

• The Art of Violence: Interpreting the Films of David Lynch