dr. S.P.M. (Steven) Willemsen
Dr. Steven Willemsen is an Assistant Professor in Art, Culture & Media at the University of Groningen, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has previously been a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Research Centre for Literature and the Mind, is author of Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema (Edinburgh University Press 2017, with Miklós Kiss) and editor of Puzzling Stories: The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television & Literature (Berghahn Books, 2022).
Degrees
| 2018 | PhD, University of Groningen, Netherlands |
| 2013 | Research Master Literary & Cultural Studies |
Positions
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2020 - present 2019 - present |
Assistant Professor - Dept. Arts, Culture & Media Senior Research Fellow - Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main (DE) |
| 2018-'19 | Lecturer in Arts, Culture & Media - University of Groningen (NL) |
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2016-'17 2014-'18 |
Visiting Research Scholar - University of California, Santa Barbara (U.S.) PhD Candidate & Junior Lecture - University of Groningen (NL) |