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 Production and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, holding a PhD in Film awarded in 2010. Her research specialises in Brechtian cinema, the Greek Weird Wave, European civil war film, film and history, and cultural memory, with a particular emphasis on questions of realism, ideology, and cinematic representation.
Rania is the author of the monographs European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict and Nostalgia (Routledge, 2013; 2016), translated into Greek by Mov Publications in 2025, and Framing the Films by Yorgos Lanthimos: The Weird in Contemporary Greek Cinema, Brecht and the Uncanny (Palgrave, 2026). Her work has also appeared extensively in leading journals and edited collections across the fields of film, media, and cultural studies.
In addition to her monographs, Rania recently edited the Routledge collection Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks with a focus on film and media (2025), and guest-edited the special double issue “New Perspectives on Film and Realism” for New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (2024–2025).
An internationally engaged scholar, Dr Kosmidou has been invited to deliver seminars and lectures at institutions including the University of London, Leeds Metropolitan University, Panteion University of Athens, the University of Central Greece, the University of Salford, University College Dublin, and the University of Zaragoza, and has presented his research at numerous national and international conferences. She is a member of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), the International Brecht Society (IBS), and is affiliated with the Centre for Cultural, Communication and Media Studies and the Creative Technology Research Centre at the University of Salford.
Areas of Research
Rania's research and supervisory interests lie primarily in the fields of Brechtian European cinema, modernist cinema, the Greek weird wave, European civil war film, film and history, film and cultural memory.
She is 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