Nilgun Bayraktar is an assistant professor of film in the Visual Studies Program at California College of the Arts. She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies and Film & Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on migrant and diasporic cinema, experimental and avant-garde cinema, site-specific art, and performance. Her recently published book, "Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art: Cinema Beyond Europe" (Routledge 2016), examines cinematic and artistic representations of migration and mobility in Europe since the 1990s.