About
Yannis Tzioumakis joined the University of Liverpool in 2007 as a Lecturer in Communication and Media after working for seven year at Liverpool John Moores University.
He did his PhD at Sheffield Hallam University under the supervision of Professors Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik, with his dissertation focusing on the cinema of David Mamet and the ways in which he maintained independence while working for Hollywood studios and their subsidiaries.
Before that Yannis had completed his MA in Contemporary Media and Cultural Studies at Liverpool John Moores University with Distinction, while for his undergraduate degree he studied English Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Yannis has published prolifically in the areas of film studies and media industry studies and has been instrumental in making them areas of research and teaching specialisation in the Department of Communication and Media.
He has been heading the Department’s Screen and Film Studies Research Cluster since 2019, while as of 2023 he has been co-director of the Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment (COSME).
Yannis has also helped develop teaching programmes that speak to these fields of specialisation, including a BA Screen Industries and Entertainment and an MA Screen Studies.
Over the course of his time at Liverpool, Yannis has taken on a number of administrative roles at Department and School level, including as School of the Arts Director of PGR for the four year period 2017-21. Currently, besides serving as co-director of COSME, Yannis is also the director of the MA Screen Studies.