Leen Engelen

Leen Engelen  
Belgian Cinema, Culture and Identity  
Lecturer and Course Supervisor

Leen Engelen is a film and media historian specialising in Belgian cinema, the history of cinema-going and cinema cultures, 19th century visual culture and media archaeology.

She is currently a professor in film and media history at LUCA School of Arts in Genk (Campus C-Mine) and Brussels (Campus Sint-Lucas). She is also a senior researcher at Antwerp University.

She got awarded a PhD in Social Sciences from Leuven University in 2005 with a thesis on the representation of the First World War in Belgian fiction films from the interwar period.

Leen has published widely on film and media history and visual culture in several national and international academic journals and is editor of several books.

She is president of the International Association for Media and History (www.iamhist.net).