Cortland Rankin

Courses taught at BGSU: 

• Introduction to Film (FILM 1610)
• History of Film (FILM 2620)
• War and Cinema (FILM 3810/3820)
• Cities and Cinema (FILM 3810)
• Rust Belt Cinema (FILM 3810/ACS 6820)
• American Film Comedy (FILM 3810/3820)

Cortland Rankin is Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Theatre and Film, where he has taught since 2019. In addition to teaching undergraduate courses in film, he also teaches graduate courses and supervises graduate students in the American Culture Studies program.

He is the author of Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York (Routledge, 2023) and co-editor, with Brady Fletcher, of Warscapes: Mediating Militarized Environments (Rutgers University Press, 2026). His research straddles the fields of film urbanism and war cinema and media. His work has appeared in the Journal of Popular Film & Television, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Millennium Film Journal, and Mediapolis—A Journal of Cities and Culture as well as in the edited volumes Hollywood Remembrance and American War (Routledge, 2020) and Screening American Independent Film (Routledge, 2023).

Dr. Rankin is a co-managing editor of Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Cultureand serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Film and Video.

Education 

Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University (2016) 

M.Phil, Screen Media & Cultures, University of Cambridge (2008) 

B.A., American Studies, Northwestern University (2007)