PhD, Comparative Literature
Harvard University
Genetic identity, kinship, and public life
How DNA technologies shape human experience, from personal identity and familial truth to public discourse, law, and media ethics.
Storytelling, media, and technology
Critical media studies, digital archives, AI-assisted storytelling, platformed narratives, and algorithmic forms of memory.
Migration, borders, and cultural memory
Immigrant story archives, border narratives, cultural studies, world literature, and transnational memory cultures.
Life writing and collective memory
Autobiography, biography, memoir, blogs, video narratives, public testimony, and other forms of life writing.
Comparative literary and philosophical traditions
English/American, French, German, Hungarian, and Eastern European literatures; phenomenological hermeneutics; Dilthey, Ricoeur, and Nancy.
Professor
Saint Mary’s College of California
Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies
University of Mainz, 2026
📍 Mainz, Germany
Waseda University
2026
📍 Tokyo, Japan
University of Buenos Aires
2026
📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina
IAU–ACM
2024
📍 Barcelona, Spain
University of Bordeaux
2019
📍 Bordeaux, France
Chair
Department of World Languages and Cultures, Saint Mary’s College of California
Director
Global and Regional Studies, Saint Mary’s College of California
Director, Honors Program
Saint Mary’s College of California, 2020–2025
Developed and managed a program of approximately 250 students, cultivating academic excellence among high-achieving students.
Literacy volunteer
Taught literacy skills in public schools for underserved children for more than two years.
Hungarian language and culture teacher
Taught Hungarian language and culture to heritage speakers for more than ten years.
Film festival organizer
Organized French film festival programming and community-facing cultural events.