Marlies De Munck

Marlies De Munck (°1979) studied at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven and was visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York. In 2012 she obtained a PhD in the philosophy of music with a dissertation on the concept of musical meaning. She currently teaches at the Philosophy Department of the University of Antwerp and is supervisor of artistic research at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. She regularly gives lectures on themes in the philosophy of music and publishes articles on various topics in aesthetics. She is co-editor of the essay-collection Muziek ervaren (Damon 2014) and author of Waarom Chopin de regen niet wilde horen (Letterwerk 2017), De vlucht van de nachtegaal: Een filosofisch pleidooi voor de muzikant (Letterwerk 2019), and Ik zie Bergen weer als Bergen (Poespa 2021). With co-author Pascal Gielen she wrote the longreads Nearness. Art and Education after Covid-19 (Valiz 2020), and Fragility. To Touch and Be Touched (Valiz 2022). She regularly writes columns as an opinionator for the Belgian newspaper De Standaard.