She received her BA from Istanbul University, her MA in Cinema and Media Studies from the College of Staten Island / CUNY and her PhD in in Visual and Cultural Studies from Bilkent University. Her PhD dissertation is on the construction of masculinities in the star image of Yılmaz Güney. Her research areas are Turkish modernization and politics, cultural studies, gender studies and television studies. She currently teaches film history, popular culture and cultural studies at Istanbul Kultur University.