Dr Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Lecturer in Film
Biography
Dr Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK. She holds a PhD in Film (2010) and is a Higher Education Academy Fellow. Her research focuses on Brechtian cinema, the Greek New Wave, the Greek Weird Wave, European cinema, European civil war film (form and style, gender and genre), film and history, cultural memory, film theory and film history, critical theory (with emphasis on popular culture). She has published on the above subjects in journals, edited collections and in her monograph European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict and Nostalgia (Routledge 2013; 2016) which was also translated in Greek by Mov Publications in 2025.
Rania's second monograph on the films by Yorgos Lanthimos for Palgrave is forthcoming, she co edited a collection on Intangible Cultural Heritage with a focus on film and media published in 2025 by Routledge, and co edited a special issue on “New Perspectives on Film and Realism” for the Journal New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, also forthcoming in 2025.
Rania has 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 has presented her 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) at the University of Salford,
A member of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS).
Rania has supervised to completion 3 PhDs.
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, critical theory (with emphasis on popular culture).
Other research interests include Animated film, and Latin America Cinema.
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the above areas.
Current teaching:
• global cinema
• the essay film
• film and ideology
• final dissertation
I have extensive experience in supervising UG Dissertations and final year films.
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