Part-time Lecturer
Fields of Interest
Biography
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Washington, 2018
M.A., Film Studies, University of Iowa, 2012
B.A., English, Columbia University, 2003
I am an animation and comics scholar. I am currently working on a manuscript based on my dissertation on Yugoslavia's animation industry, commonly known as the Zagreb School of Animation. I am also working on a lengthy study of Jules Feiffer, "America's first literary cartoonist." I write frequently about comics and conduct interviews with writers and artists for Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, and Full Stop.
Awards
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Medal Division of the Humanities 2018
Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship 2017
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships 2013 and 2014
Fulbright Student Hungary 2007