Maarten Coëgnarts

Roles:
Author

Affiliations:

• • Assistant professor
  • University of Antwerp / LUCA School of Arts
  • Belgium
• • Special visiting lecturer
  • Audiovisual Concepts
  • LUCA School of Arts View ROR record for LUCA School of Arts. (opens in new tab)
  • Jan 2025–
• • Research Fellow
  • Art History and Visual Culture Studies
  • University of the Free State View ROR record for University of the Free State. (opens in new tab)
  • Aug 2025–Jul 2028

Biography

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Maarten Coëgnarts is Assistant Professor in Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and Research Fellow at the Department of Art History and Image Studies at the University of the Free State (South Africa). His research on embodied cognition, metaphor and cinema has been published in various peer-reviewed journals including Art & Perception, Cinéma & Cie, Image [&] Narrative, Metaphor and Symbol, New Review of Film and Television Studies and Projections. He is co-editor of the book Embodied Cognition and Cinema (Leuven University Press, 2015), and author of Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (Academic Studies Press, 2019). He is currently involved in a European funded pilot project entitled “Artistic Research and Cognitive Film Studies: Towards a Transdisciplinary Understanding of Cinema” which aims at furthering transdisciplinary collaboration between artistic researchers from different film schools in Europe (Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Tallinn) and cognitive scholars working in the field of media- and film studies.

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