Nathan Koob is a Visiting Lecturer in the English Department and Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2015. His work examines the production process, authorship, and texts through their spatial and industrial contexts. He has published work in Post Script, Film Criticism, the collection The City in American Cinema: Postindustrialism, Gentrification, and Urban Culture, and the recent collection ReFocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman.