Ph.D. in English (expected 2015)
Dissertation: “Speaking Through the Wound: Bearing Witness through Gendered Bodies in Trauma Narratives of War”
Areas of Specialty: 20th-Century Literature, Trauma Theory, Gender Studies, Film Studies, Instructional Technology
Doctoral Certificate Programs: Film Studies and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Recipient: Chancellor’s Fellowship, Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Instructional Technology Fellowship
New York University
M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought (2002)
Thesis: “Incest and Film: Re-Erecting Patriarchy in Spanking the Monkey and The House of Yes”
Areas of Concentration: Literature, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Psychoanalysis
Recipient: Hirschorn Award for Thesis Excellence
Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)
Certificate from the Korean Language Institute (1999)
Participated in a 5-week intensive language and culture program
University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. in English w/ Minor in Women’s Studies (1998)
Honors Thesis: “The Re-Oedipalization of America: Freud and Gender in Platoon”
Specialized Study: 1997 UCLA Overseas Program, four weeks in Stratford-von-Avon studying the life and work of William Shakespeare
Areas of Concentration: Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Gender Studies
Recipient: Departmental Honors
