Charles-Antoine Courcoux

Charles-Antoine Courcoux is a MER 1 (Maître d'enseignement et de recherche), equivalent to Assistant Professor, in the Section of History and Aesthetics of Cinema at the Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne (UNIL), a position he has held since 2011. He also serves as Secretary General of the CH Cinema Network, contributing to national academic collaboration in film studies.

His research is interdisciplinary, focusing on how cinema produces and reflects sociocultural norms, with a particular emphasis on gender relations and the representation of hegemonic masculinity in relation to technological modernity. His doctoral work, completed at the University of Zurich, examined American cinema from 1968 to 2009, especially the interplay between machines and male identity.

• Doctorate: University of Zurich
• Former SNSF Scholarship Holder
• Visiting Researcher: University of Paris 7

He has published in academic journals such as Film & History, Décadrages, and Poli, and contributed to collective volumes on science fiction, fantasy, and the archaeology of television. His work bridges film aesthetics, cultural studies, and gender theory.

Although he previously held a non-academic leadership role in external communications at the University of Geneva for nearly ten years, his current role at UNIL is fully academic and research-oriented. There is no indication of part-time status, retirement, or former staff designation.

He is actively engaged in research and academic service, with no mention of scientific awards or supervised students in the available text.