Dr Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Lecturer in Film
Biography
I am a Lecturer in Film Production. I hold a PhD in Film (2010) and I am a Higher Education Academy Fellow. My research focuses on Brechtian cinema, the Greek New Wave, the Greek Weird Wave, European civil war film, film and history, cultural memory. I have published on the above subjects in journals, edited collections and in my monograph European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict and Nostalgia (Routledge 2013; 2016) which was also translated in Greek by Mov Publications in 2025.
My second monograph on the films by Yorgos Lanthimos for Palgrave is forthcoming. I edited a collection on Intangible Cultural Heritage with a focus on film and media published in 2025 by Routledge, and edited a special issue on “New Perspectives on Film and Realism” for the Journal New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, published in 2024.
I have been invited to deliver seminars at the University of London, Leeds Metropolitan University, Panteion University of Athens (Greece), University of Central Greece, the University of Salford, University College Dublin, and the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and have presented my research at numerous national and international conferences.
Memberships:
A member of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA),
A member of the Centre of Cultural, Communication and Media (CCM) and the Creative Technology Research Centre at the University of Salford,
A member of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS).
A member of the International Brecht Society (IBS).
Areas of Research
My current research and supervisory interests lie primarily in the fields of Brechtian European cinema, modernist cinema, the Greek weird wave, European civil war film (form and style, gender and genre), film and history, film and cultural memory.
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the above areas.
Current teaching:
• global cinema
• the essay film
• film and ideology
• final dissertation
Past teaching:
• global cinema
• the essay film
• film and ideology
• final dissertation
• global cinema 1
• global cinema 2
• introduction to film analysis
• introduction to film theory
• popular European cinema
• culture and society
• critical approaches to film
• genre and beyond
• film histories film movements
• British TV drama
• classical Hollywood cinema
Qualifications
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MA in English Literature and Culture
2019 - 2020 -
Post Graduate Teaching Certificate in Academic Practice
2012 - 2013 -
PhD in Film and Cultural Studies
2005 - 2010 -
M.A. in European Studies
2003 - 2004 -
Licence in English
1999 - 2002