Doru Pop is full-time professor at the Faculty of Theater and Television,  Babeș Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania. Master’s Degree in Journalism and Communication at Chapel Hill University, North Carolina, in 2002, and a Doctorate in Philosophy by the Babes Bolyai University in 2003 having defended a thesis on the philosophy of visual culture. He was a Fulbright and Ron Brown scholarship student in 1995-96 and 2000 2002, and taught a course on Romanian film at Bard College, New York, in 2012 and was a visiting professor at Columbus State University, 2017. His most recent book is Romanian New Wave Cinema (McFarland, 2014).