Dominic Nardi

Dominic J. Nardi received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan and teaches at George Washington University. He coedited The Transmedia Franchise of Star Wars TV (Palgrave, 2020) and Discovering Dune (McFarland, 2022), and has written about politics in Blade Runner and Lord of the Rings. He is currently working on a book about Studio Ghibli films as adaptations.

He is also an adjunct professor of political science at George Washington University. He has worked as a a supervisory policy analyst at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and as a consultant for USAID-funded democracy-promotion projects in Southeast Asia. From 2014-15, Prof. Nardi served as a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellow in Burma. His academic work has appeared in Contemporary Southeast Asia, British Journal of Political Science, and Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal. He completed his Ph.D at the University of Michigan and his B.S. in International Affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He has conversational Indonesian and Burmese language skills.