maarten.coegnarts@luca-arts.be

Maarten Coëgnarts is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at the University of Antwerp and fellow of the Society of the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI). His research on embodied cognition, metaphor and cinema has been widely published in various international peer-reviewed journals including Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Cinéma & Cie, Image [&] Narrative, Metaphor and Symbol, Metaphor and the Social World, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Palgrave Communications and Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind. He is co-editor of the book Embodied Cognition and Cinema (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2015) and author of the book Film as Embodied Art: Bodily Meaning in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2019). ). Together with Pia Tikka and Elen Lotman he also guest-edited the special issue “Cinematic Minds in the Making: An Investigation into Subjective and Intersubjective Experiences of Storytelling” for Baltic Screen Media Review (2023).