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.
