Resume

• 2012

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

  Wrote dissertation entitled \"The Zagreb School of Animation and the Unperfect.\" The dissertation studied the animation industry of the former Yugoslavia.

  Film/Cinema/Video Studies

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  University of Washington

• 2010

  Master's degree

  Took classes on Film Studies and Literature

  Film Studies

  University of Iowa

• 1999

  Croatian

  Bachelor's degree

  Took a variety of courses on literature

  history

  and film\n\nBooks editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator

  English Language and Literature/Letters

  Columbia University in the City of New York

• 1995

  Richard Montgomery High School

• News Writing

  Teaching

  Ap Style

  Research

  Fact-checking

  Blogging

  Newspaper

  Newspapers

  Online Journalism

  Editorial

  Copy Editing

  Literature

  Freelance Writing

  Journalism

  Editing

  Creative Writing

  Copywriting

  Proofreading

  Storytelling

  Feature Articles

  A Beautiful Man: On Peter Parker and the Amazing Spider-Man

  A Beautiful Man: On Peter Parker and the Amazing Spider-Man

  A Comic Book by Other Means

  The Survivor: On Magneto

  Mutants

  and the Holocaust

  The Survivor: On Magneto

  Mutants

  and the Holocaust

  Boomerangs and Bombs: The Zagreb School of Animation and Yugoslavia's Third Way Experiment

  The Life and Death of a Line: Saul Steinberg's 'The Labyrinth'

  The Life and Death of a Line: Saul Steinberg's 'The Labyrinth'

  The Playboy Funnies: Hefner Editing Feiffer

  Anticipate Doom: The Millions Interviews Laszlo Krasznahorkai

  Paul

  Morton

  Fulbright

  The Millions

  The Baltic Times

  The Sofia Echo

  University of Washington

  University of Washington

  Full Stop

  Vietnam News

  Los Angeles Review of Books

  The University of Iowa

  -- Interview writers and comic-book creators\n\n-- Write longform essays on comics and literature

  The Millions

  Freelance Writer

  --Interview writers about their recent work

  Full Stop

  The Baltic Times

  Riga

  Latvia

  --Edited Arts Section\n\n--Wrote feature articles on culture and politics in Latvia

  Lithuania

  and Estonia

  Arts Editor

  Greater Seattle Area

  --Designed and taught advanced animation studies course\n\n--Designed and taught three stand-alone courses on live-action film

  animation

  and comics\n\n--Designed and taught course on film criticism\n\n--Designed and taught three stand-alone freshman composition courses\n\n--Taught discussion sections for film lecture courses\n\n--Assisted a professor in researching and editing a history of Indian cinema and photography

  Teaching Associate / Research Assistant

  University of Washington

  Sofia

  Bulgaria

  --Wrote feature articles on Bulgarian culture\n\n--Copy-edited weekly newspaper

  Copy Editor / Features Writer

  The Sofia Echo

  Greater Seattle Area

  -- Teach \"multimodal\" course in which students try their hands in different media and genres: the podcast

  the personal essay

  the oral history

  the research paper

  the comic book (Theme: Labor) (four times)\n\n-- Designed and taught course \"Reading Prose Fiction\" (Theme: Living in an Unjust System)\n\n \n\n

  Lecturer

  University of Washington

  Budapest

  Hungary

  --Researched the history of Hungary's animation studio from the 1960s to the 1980s

  Research Grantee

  Fulbright

  --Write long-form critical essays about comics

  Los Angeles Review of Books

  The University of Iowa

  Iowa City

  Iowa Area

  --Taught a stand-alone film analysis course\n\n--Taught discussion sections for film lecture courses

  Teaching Assistant

  Hanoi

  Vietnam

  Copy-edited articles written by Vietnamese writers

  Foreign Sub-editor

  Vietnam News

  Society of Cinema and Media Studies