He received his PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, with a dissertation focusing on world cinema, contemporary political movements, and the production of subjectivity in film. At Western, he teaches a number of world cinema courses, such as Introduction to Film Studies with a global component, Postwar Global Film, and World Cinemas and Contemporary Political Movements. He is also currently developing an article that has been accepted for the anthology Teaching Transnational Cinema and Media: Politics and Pedagogy (editors Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett) titled, “Understanding Context, Resisting Hermeneutics: Ways of Seeing Transnational Relations,” with co-author Chelsea Wessels.