Petra Dominková obtained her doctoral degree at FAMU in 2008 and is currently a researcher. In addition, she teaches the history of Czech and Eastern European cinema to students at CIEE, NYU/FAMU and CET. She studied at the UCLA under a Fulbright scholarship (2004–2005) and taught Czech at CREEES, UT Austin (in the autumn of 2019). She also works as a translator and interpreter. She is a member of the Scientific Committee AVANCA | CINEMA (Portugal). Her primary research interests include Czech and Eastern European cinema, film noir, and comics.