 In 1992, Bukatman completed his Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University.He has taught at NYU, Yale University, the School of Visual Arts in New York, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of New Mexico.Courses that Bukatman has developed include a range of interdisciplinary, intermedial offerings such as "Cinema and the City", "World's Fairs and Theme Parks", "The Body in American Genre Film", and "Cyborgs and Synthetic Humans."