dr. M. (Miklós) Kiss

Miklós Kiss is an Associate Professor of Audiovisual Arts and Cognition in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Groningen. His research examines contemporary audiovisual media through intersecting narrative and cognitive approaches. He has published widely in leading journals, including Projections, Scope, Senses of Cinema, NECSUS, New Cinemas, Convergence, and New Review of Film and Television Studies. He served on the editorial board of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies and is a Fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI). He is co-author of Film Studies in Motion: From Audiovisual Essay to Academic Research Video (Scalar 2016) and Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema (Edinburgh UP 2017), and co-editor of Puzzling Stories: The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature (Berghahn 2022).

EDUCATION

• BKO (Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs / University Teaching Qualification) – University of Groningen (NL).
• 2003 – 2008: Ph.D. in Literary and Film Studies – University of Jyväskylä (FI) / University of Pécs (HU), grade: excellent.
• 2001 – 2006: MA in Communication Science with specialization in Institutional Communication – University of Pécs (HU), grade: with honours / cum laude.
• 1997 – 2003: Certificate in Film Studies – University of Pécs (HU).
• 1997 – 2003: MA in Literary Studies – University of Pécs (HU).
• 1994 – 1996: Vocational degree in Photography – Árpád Vocational School (HU).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2025 - to date: Coordinator of ICOG research colloquium series: Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media
• 2024 - to date: Editorial Board Member of Projections, The Journal for Movies and Mind
• 2020 - 2023: Head of Department Arts, Culture and Media
• 2019 - to date: Associate Professor in Audiovisual Arts and Cognition, Department of Arts, Culture, and Media – Culture and Cognition, University of Groningen (NL).
• 2018 - to date: Fellow member of SCSMI – The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image.
• 2014 - to date: Editorial Board Member of the online journal  [in]Transition  (the first peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies).
• 2009 – 2019: Assistant Professor in Film and Media Studies, researcher – Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, Film Studies Programme, University of Groningen (NL).
• 2006 – 2009: Teaching assistant, researcher – Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä (FI).
• 2006 – 2009: Doctoral student – Department of Hungarology, University of Jyväskylä (FI).
• 2004 – 2006: Teaching assistant – Department of Communications, University of Pécs (HU).
• 2005 – 2006: Festival coordinator 'MovEast – International Filmfestival', Pécs (HU).
• 2002 – 2003: Teaching assistant – Center for the Study of the Moving Image, University of Pécs (HU).
• 1996: Photographer – Tauber Zeitung, Bad Mergentheim (GER).