Nathan Koob

  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Nathan Koob received a PhD in Screen Arts and Cultures from the University of Michigan and an MA in English with a Film Studies Certificate from the University of Pittsburgh. Nathan teaches courses primarily for the Film & Media Studies and Digital Narrative and Interactive Design programs, including video game studies courses. His research and publications focus on intersections of media industries and cultural geography. For instance, his dissertation Out-siders: Auteurs in Place focuses on the unique authorial identities filmmakers forged through production relationships in cities, such as John Waters in Baltimore

Representative Publications

“Home-Makers: Examining the Altmans’ Place-based Production Practices in Cookie’s Fortune.” ReFocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman. Eds. Justin Wyatt and Lisa Dombrowski. Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

(2019) “The Gentrification of John Waters.” Film Criticism. Eds. Doyle Green, Joseph Tompkins, and Walter Carl Metz. 43.1.

“You Don’t Have to Call Us Home, But Please Stay Here: The City Film Commission.” The City in American Cinema: Postindustrialism, Gentrification, and Urban Culture. Eds. Lawrence Webb and Johan Andersson. Bloomsbury, 2018.