Rate My Professor Michael Gott

Michael Gott serves as Professor of French and Department Head of the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures, as well as Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of Communication, Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He is also the Director of Programming for the University's Niehoff Center for Film and Media Studies and an affiliate faculty member in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Gott joined the University of Cincinnati in 2012 and has since advanced to full professor while assuming key leadership roles in his department and film programming initiatives.

Gott holds a PhD in French from the University of Texas at Austin (2011), an MA in French and Francophone Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (2006), and a BA in International Studies and French from Ohio State University (2002). His research focuses on the representation of migration, mobility, and cognitive mapping in global screen media, as well as the cultural policies and industry practices that shape narratives about identity and collective visions of the world. Listed as specializing in Transnational Cinema Studies and Contemporary French Cinema, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on transnational film and screen media, global screen industries and networks, border studies, mobility studies, contemporary French and Francophone cultures—including cinema, television, bande dessinée, and literature—Quebec cinema, diaspora and migration, and European Studies. Gott is the author of Screen Borders: From Calais to cinéma-monde (Manchester University Press, 2023) and French-language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas, Migration and 'New Europe' (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). He has co-edited several volumes, including Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century: Transcending the National (Liverpool University Press, 2024, with Thibaut Schilt), Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French (Edinburgh University Press, 2018, with Thibaut Schilt), ReFocus: The Cinema of Rachid Bouchareb (Edinburgh University Press, 2020, with Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp), East, West and Centre: Re-framing Post-1989 European Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2014, with Todd Herzog), and Open Roads, Closed Borders: The Contemporary French-language Road Movie (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2013, with Thibaut Schilt). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals such as Contemporary French Civilization, Studies in European Cinema, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, and Modern and Contemporary France.