Maarten Coegnarts (Belgium) holds a PhD in Film Studies and Visual Culture and an MA in Sociology (University of Antwerp). Since 2010 he has been doing research on the interplay between metaphor, image schemas and cinema. The results have been published in various peer-reviewed journals such as Metaphor and Symbol, New Review of Film and Television Studies and Projections. He is also co-editor of the book Embodied Cognition and Cinema (Leuven University Press, 2015).
