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Professor Angelos Koutsourakis is a Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, where he joined in January 2017 as a University Academic Fellow, was promoted to Associate Professor in August 2020, and received his Chair (full Professorship) in March 2024. He is affiliated with the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, which serves as the hub for his research and teaching activities.
Professor Koutsourakis completed his academic journey with a BA in Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2004), followed by an MA in Modern Drama and Performance Studies at University College Dublin (2006), and a PhD focusing on film (particularly the Danish auteur Lars von Trier) at the University of Sussex (2012). Between 2011-2012, he worked as a guest scholar at the University of Copenhagen, funded by the Danish Agency for International Education. Prior to joining Leeds, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of New South Wales and Queensland (2012-2016).
His research sits at the interface of film theory, world cinema, modernism, and politics and representation, with particular interests in questions of politics and representation in world cinema and combined and uneven development, early film theory, and the relations between cinema and literary modernism. Professor Koutsourakis has authored three monographs: Kafkaesque Cinema (2024), Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema (2018), and Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading (2013), along with co-edited volumes on European cinema and crisis. He has published in leading international journals including Cinema Journal, Screen, Modernism/Modernity, and Film-Philosophy.
His recent publications demonstrate a growing engagement with contemporary political concerns through cinematic analysis, particularly focusing on post-fascism, the Anthropocene, and Third Cinema. His work shows a consistent thread connecting historical film theory with urgent contemporary issues, revealing how cinematic forms can illuminate political and philosophical questions of our time. The interdisciplinary nature of his scholarship bridges film studies, political theory, and environmental humanities.
- Best Book in Film Studies by the Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies (2024) for Kafkaesque Cinema
- Shortlisted for the 2021 Film-Philosophy Annual Article Award for "The Politics of Humour in Kafkaesque Cinema"
- Shortlisted for the 2018 Film-Philosophy Article Award for "Visualizing the Anthropocene Dialectically"
- Iran's Book of the Year Award 2021 for the Persian translation of The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos
Professor Koutsourakis has supervised several PhD and Master's students, including Laurence Carr (PhD, 2017-2022), Lauren Molyneux (MAR, 2023), and Prateek (PhD, 2015-2018). He currently supervises Benjamin Brown and Chuxi Yan. His research has been supported by significant grants including an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, an AHRC Research Leadership Fellowship titled "The Kafkaesque in World Cinema" (2020-22), and previous postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Queensland and New South Wales.
As a member of the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, Professor Koutsourakis contributes to a vibrant research community focused on global cinematic practices and digital culture. His current work includes a book-length project titled "Third Cinema and the Anthropocene," which examines Third Cinema's anti-extractivist poetics and environmental politics in relation to human-induced climate change.
