S.P.M. (Steven) Willemsen, MA

Steven Willemsen is a Lecturer in Film and Media Studies. His research interests lie in film theory, narratology, and cognitive approaches to the Arts and Humanities. He is author of Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach To Contemporary Complex Cinema  (with Dr. Miklós Kiss, Edingburgh University Press, 2017), co-editor of the book series  Sleutelteksten in Film- en Mediatheorie  ( Key Texts in Film and Media Theory), and has been a Visiting Research Scholar at the Research Centre for Literature & The Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara (2016-17). In 2018, he completed his doctoral thesis examining experiences of narrative complexity in film, blending narratological and embodied-cognitive perspectives.