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2026

From 25-05-2026 to 25-06-2026 SUMMER 1

Reference	Subject	Hores lectives
SPA 301	Intermediate Spanish grammar	45h
SPA 433	Advanced Spanish culture	45h
SPA 431	Spanish Culture: History, Art and Spanish Traditions	45h
SPA 401	Advanced Spanish grammar	45h
SPA 451	Advanced Spanish cinema	45h

From 29-06-2026 to 30-07-2026 SUMMER 2

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPA 451	Spanish cinema	45h
SPA 431	Spanish Culture: History, Art and Spanish Traditions
SPA 446	Panorama of Spanish Literature: From Neoclassicism to the Contemporary	45h

From 29-06-2026 to 04-08-2026 SUMMER 3 FLORIDA

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPN 1131	Beginning Spanish	45h
SPN 2471	Spanish culture	45h

2025

From 26-05-2025 to 27-06-2025 SUMMER 1

Reference	Subject	Hores lectives
SPA 301	Intermediate Spanish grammar	45h
SPA 433	Advanced Spanish culture	45h
SPA 431	Spanish Culture: History, Art and Spanish Traditions	45h
SPA 401	Advanced Spanish grammar	45h
SPA 451	Advanced Spanish cinema	45h

From 30-06-2025 to 31-07-2025 SUMMER 2

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPA 451	Spanish cinema	45h
SPA 431	Spanish Culture: History, Art and Spanish Traditions
SPA 446	Panorama of Spanish Literature: From Neoclassicism to the Contemporary	45h

From 30-06-2025 to 05-08-2025 SUMMER 3 FLORIDA

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPN 1131	Beginning Spanish	45h
SPN 2471	Spanish culture	45h

2024

From 15-01-2024 to 11-05-2024

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPA 451	Spanish cinema	45h
SPA 444	Mediterranean civilisation and culture	45h
SPA 446	Panorama of Spanish Literature: From Neoclassicism to the Contemporary	45h
SPA 431	Spanish culture, history, art and tradition	45h

From 27-05-2024 to 27-06-2024 SUMMER 1

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPA 301	Intermediate Spanish grammar	45h
SPA 332	Intermediate Spanish culture	45h
SPA 433	Advanced Spanish culture	45h
SPA 401	Advanced Spanish grammar	45h
SPA 451	Advanced Spanish cinema	45h

From 01-07-2024 to 01-08-2024 SUMMER 2

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPA 451	Spanish cinema	45h
SPA 446	Panorama of Spanish Literature: From Neoclassicism to the Contemporary	45h

From 01-07-2024 to 06-08-2024 SUMMER 3 FLORIDA

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPN 3472	Advanced communicative Spanish abroad	45h
SPN 2471	Spanish culture	45h

2023

From January to May 2023

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPA 401	Spanish grammar	45h
SPA 431	Spanish culture	45h
SPA 461	Phonetics and phonology	45h
SPA 444	Mediterranean civilisation and culture	45h

From 30-05-2023 to 30-06-2023

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPA 440	Panorama of advanced Spanish literature	45h
SPA 433	Advanced Spanish culture	45h
SPA 332	Intermediate Spanish culture	45h
SPA 451	Advanced Spanish cinema	45h
SPA 301	Intermediate Spanish grammar	45h

From 03-07-2023 to 03-08-2023

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPA 401	Spanish grammar	45h
SPA 431	Spanish culture, history, art and tradition	45h
SPA 451	Advanced Spanish cinema	45h

From 03-07-2023 to 07-08-2023 SUMMER 3 FLORIDA

Reference	Subject	Teaching hours
SPN 3472	Advanced communicative Spanish abroad	45h
SPN 2471	Spanish culture	45h

Faculty:

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Surname and name	Address	+ info	Biography
AGUILAR RUIZ, MANUEL JOSE PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A	Departamento de Filología Española Facultad de Filología, Traducción y Comunicación Universitat de València Av. Blasco Ibáñez, núm. 32, 3.º, despacho 13, buzón núm. 126. Teléfono: 96 386 41 00 ext. 51072 96 386 41 00 (D) manuel.j.aguilar@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
- Doctorado en Estudios Hispánicos Avanzados, Universidad de Valencia (2021) Tesis: "Los neologismos fraseológicos como palabras idiomáticas en locuciones en español: morfología y clasificación". Directora: M.ª Virginia González García - Máster de Lexicografía Hispánica, Real Academia Española/Universidad de León (2015) TFM: "Las palabras idiomáticas en la fraseología española: elaboración de un inventario a partir de su tratamiento lexicográfico en el DRAE y el DEA". Director: Mario García-Page Sánchez - Diploma de Posgrado en Metodología y Didáctica del Español como Lengua Extranjera, Universidad de Valencia (2014) - Posgrado: Certificado de Especialización en Edición de Textos Medievales, Universidad de Valencia (2012) - Máster de Estudios Hispánicos Avanzados, Universidad de Valencia (2010) TFM: "El componente léxico 'mar' en las unidades fraseológicas en castellano". Directora: M.ª Teresa Echenique Elizondo - Licenciatura en Filología Clásica, Universidad de Granada (2005) Codificador del banco de datos Corpus del español del siglo XXI (CORPES) de la Real Academia Española (RAE) a través del equipo de la Universitat de València (desde 2011) Colaborador en la redacción del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (DHLE) de la Real Academia Española (RAE) (2022-2024) Colaborador en la digitalización del Diccionario del español actual (DEA) de Seco, Andrés y Ramos (desde 2023) Colaborador del proyecto de I+D+i PID2020-117659GB-100 Tesoro Lexicográfico del Español en América (TLEAM) del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (2021) Miembro del comité editorial de Phrasis. Rivista di studi fraseologici e paremiologici de la Associazione Italiana di Fraseologia e Paremiologia Phrasis (desde 2016) y FRASEOLEX (Revista Internacional de Fraseología y Lexicología) (desde 2022) Comité evaluador de las revistas Sintagma, Revista de Lingüística, RILEX. Revista sobre investigaciones léxicas, Foro de Profesores de E/LE, International Journal of Language and Linguistics, Normas. Revista de Estudios Lingüísticos Hispánicos, Revista de Lenguas para fines específicos, Estudios Filológicos (Universidad Austral de Chile), Forum for Linguistic Studies y Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics Coordinador del equipo de español de la revista Euroamerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, Texas A&M University-Commerce, EE. UU. (2014-2018)
CHOVER LAFARGA, ANA MARIA PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A	20380 anna.chover@uv.es	Personal file
DOMENE BENITO, ROCIO Alumn.	83832 rodobe@alumni.uv.es	Personal file
FUENTE SOLER, MANUEL DE LA PDI-Titular d'UniversitatCap de Seccio-ServeiJefe/a de Seccion-Servicio-Vicerrectorado de Cultura i Societat; Cap d'Iniciatives d'Aula de Cinema i Musiques Urbanes	51102 manuel.delafuente@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Valencia (Spain). He has been researching the history of cinema and the political effects of popular culture while his main teaching interests focus on documentary film, Spanish film, popular music and audio-visual translation. He also served as a research fellow and a visiting professor in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. He coordinated the Master’s Degree in Interculturality, Communication and European Studies at the University of Valencia and the Marie-Curie research projects “Cultural narratives of crisis and renewal” and "Archives in transition. Collective memories and subaltern uses" at the same institution. He has published many articles dedicated to cinema and music in various international journals. He has also authored books such as “Frank Zappa en el infierno. El rock como movilización para la disidencia política” (Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2006) “Madrid. Visiones cinematográficas de los años 1950 a los años 2000” (Neuilly-sur-Seine, Atlande, 2014), and edited others, such as “Cine, imagen y representación en Guy Debord” (Valencia, Tirant, 2019). He also translated the memoirs of rock musicians Roger Daltrey, Robby Krieger and Frank Zappa into Spanish.
ESPAÑA PALOP, EDUARDO PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl	83828 (D) eduardo.espana@uv.es	Personal file
GRANELL TOLEDO, MONICA PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A	96 386 4245 (D) monica.granell@uv.es	Personal file
GONZALEZ-ESPRESATI GARCIA-MEDALL, CARLOS PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A	carlos.gonzalez-espresati@uv.es	Personal file
MARCET HERRANZ, ANA PDI-Titular d'Universitat	ana.marcet@uv.es	Personal file
MESTRE PEREZ, ROSANNA PDI-Titular d'UniversitatCoordinador/a de Mobilitat	Despatx 12 51104 rosanna.mestre@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
Rosanna Mestre-Pérez is Associate Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the Universitat de València, where she has taught since 1999. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology, with a doctoral thesis on Spanish cinema, as well as degrees in Audiovisual Communication and Audiovisual Languages, all from the Universitat de València. At the same university, she has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Audiovisual Communication, Journalism, and Multimedia Engineering. She was Visiting Instructor of Spanish at Longwood College, now Longwood University, in Virginia, and has also taught doctoral courses at the University of Oriente in Santiago de Cuba. She also taught courses of Spanish for Longwood College’s study abroad programme in Mérida, Venezuela, as well as Spanish cinema and culture, in Spanish and English, in several international programmes for USA students (UVA, ISA, UGA, IOWA...) at the Universitat de València. Her research focuses on film studies, screen tourism, and digital communication. She coordinates CITur (Cinema, Imaginaries and Tourism), an international research group at the Universitat de València, founded in 2005 by Antonia del Rey Reguillo and recognised as a pioneering reference in Spain in the study of the relationships between cinema, social imaginaries, and tourism. In this field, she has been PI (HAR2016_77734-P) and co-PI with Jorge Nieto Ferrando (PID2020-112668GB-I00) of national research projects on film and tourism funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. One of her research subfields examines Indian cinema shot in Spain and its role in shaping cultural imaginaries, destination images, and screen tourism. Her work on digital communication focuses especially on artificial intelligence (IACom teaching innovation group), the visual and sociopolitical study of geolocated digital archives such as Google Street View, and audiovisual literacy through digital literary genres (NAPCED teaching innovation group, YouTube channel). She was a member of the R&D group Mediaflows in the project on the ecology of disinformation and the construction of fake news in the public sphere (AICO2020/224), led by Guillermo López García at the Universitat de València, and part of the research team led by Josep Gifreu Pinsach at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra on television and migration (2001-2003). She led two teaching innovation projects at the Universitat de València on cooperative learning and the use of ICT (2009-2010 and 2010-2011). She serves on the editorial board of *Estudios Turísticos, the journal published by Turespaña, and Arts and Communication* journal. She was Guest Editor of the special issue Shaping Destinations: The Role of Cultural Affinity and Screen Tourism in Sustainable Development for Arts & Communication (2025-2026). She acts as a peer reviewer for several academic journals in film studies, screen tourism, visual culture, and communication. She has participated in several funded research projects, supervised PhD theses in her main research areas, and taken part in more than fifty academic events in China, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. She has published extensively in these fields and undertaken research stays at international institutions in Europe and the Americas. She has also served as coordinator of the Aula de Cinema at the Universitat de València. She is currently mobility coordinator for the Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual Communication at the Universitat de València. Among her most recent publications there are: -2026 ‘I like what it writes, but...': Media Studies Students’ Reflections on Using ChatGPT in a Narrative Assignment. INTED Proceedings. DOI: 10.21125/inted.2026.1005 -2026 Mujeres y turismo en el cine español (1980-2025): entre sujeto y objeto. In Beatriz Correyero Ruiz, Elvira Lindoso Tato and Carlos Larrinaga Rodríguez (coords.) Mujer moderna, mujer turista. Dimensiones socioculturales y económicas de la figura femenina en el desarrollo turístico español, 1900-1960, pp. 159-178 Universidad de Oviedo (to be published). -2026 Can Tourist Poster Films Promote Tourism to a Featured Destination? Indian Fictional Tourist’s Representation in Spain, in Maria Gravari-Barbas and Jean-François Staszak (eds.) Handbook of Tourism Imaginaries. Edward Elgar Publishing. With M. C. Puche-Ruiz (to be published). -2026 Glitches, Blurs and Erasures: Algorithmic Disruptions in the Afterlife of Google Street View. Comunicación y Medios, 53 (to be published). -2025 El bosque en Zone Blanche y la trilogía del Baztán: sense of place y neolocal tourism. In Jorge Nieto Ferrando and Rosanna Mestre Pérez (coords.) Ficciones y turismo. Propuestas, experiencias y representaciones. Tirant lo Blanch. With María C. Puche-Ruiz. -2024 "Film commissions hoy: el cine al servicio de los rodajes y el turismo", pg. 93-102; "El turismo moderno en el cine español", pg. 193-202; y "Posturismo en el cine español contemporáneo", en A. del Rey Reguillo (ed.), La huella del turismo en un siglo de cine español (1916-2015), pg. 203-217. Síntesis, 2nd expanded edition. -2024 Géneros (Meta)literarios digitales y creación audiovisual. Aplicaciones educativas y profesionales. In Anna Brígido-Corachán, Rosanna Mestre Pérez and Nel·lo Pelliser Rossell (eds.) Los géneros literarios digitales en la investigación y la enseñanza universitaria, pp. 1-36; Alfabetización audiovisual mediante el booktrailer, el videopoema y el ensayo audiovisual, pp. 63-92; La realización de proyectos audiovisuales en el aula: grabación y edición de vídeo con dispositivos móviles, pp. 197-224; Orientaciones para trabajar proyectos audiovisuales y géneros metaliterarios en el aula universitaria, pp. 235-249; and Plantilla de (pre)guio/escaleta para proyectos audiovisuales, pp. 255-257. Tirant lo Blanch. -2024 ¿Una imagen vale más que mil palabras? Comparación entre la IA Generativa de textos y la IA Generativa de imágenes. In Fernando Castelló-Sirvent, Marta Peris-Ortiz, Vanessa Roger-Monzó (eds.) Estrategias y transiciones socio-técnicas para la era de la información digital, pp. 80-95. Dikynson, with Yolanda Cabrera García-Ochoa and Vanessa Roger-Monzón. -2023 Perspectivas emergentes de los medios españoles sobre la IA en la educación superior. In A. Martos Martínez et al. (comp.) Innovación Docente e Investigación en Educación: Nuevas tendencias para el cambio en la enseñanza superior (pp. 437-447). Madrid: Dykinson, with Vanessa Roger Monzó and Yolanda Cabrera García-Ochoa. -2023 La deconstrucción de la información: tipologías de desinformación en redes sociales. In G. López García (ed.). Ecología de la desinformación y su impacto en el espacio público, pp. 113-136. New York: Peter Lang, with Lorena Cano-Orón, Dafne Calvo and Marta Meneu (DOI). -2023 Creation of digital literary genres in the Degree of Audiovisual Communication, in Conference Proceedings CIVAE 2023 / MusicoGuía (ed. lit.), 2023, ISBN 978-84-124511-9-1, pp. 251-255, with Nel·lo Pellisser Rossell. -2022 Entre txantxigorri y txacolin: rutas literarias y cinematográficas que dinamizan el turismo neolocal en el valle del Baztán, en A. del Rey Reguillo y R. Mestre Pérez (coords.), Cine español actual, patrimonio autóctono y turismo, pp. 151-206, Gedisa. - 2021 Antología del cine turístico (1916-2015), A. del Rey Reguillo (ed.), contains 62 crítical sheets byt the author. Síntesis. -2021: Media crisis and disinformation: the participation of digital newspapers in the dissemination of a denialist hoax, El Profesional de la Información, 30(4), with Lorena Cano-Orón, Dafne Calvo and Germán Llorca-Abad. - 2020 Secular Re-Symbolisation of the Santiago Pilgrimage in Spanish Cinema: the Case of The Way and Road to Santiago, L’Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematográficos, 30, pp. 17-32. - 2020 España, plató de cine: claroscuros de las rutas de cine y televisión. Revista de Estudios Turísticos, nº 220, pp. 9-31. - 2018 Japan in Spain. Japanese culture through Spanish eyes in the film Gisaku, Arts, 7(4), 93, Special Issue on Japanese Transnational Cinema, pp. 1-14. More info on orcid
OLIVARES TORRES, ENRIQUE PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A	Departament d'Història de l'Art Facultat de Geografia i Història Avd. Blasco Ibáñez, 28 (9639) 83416 enrique.olivares@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
ENRIC OLIVARES TORRES (Algemesí, 1978) is a graduate and PhD in Art History and an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Valencia since 2022. Prior to that year, and since 2016, he was an associate professor in the same department. He also worked as a secondary school teacher at the private school Maria Auxiliadora in Algemesí from 2010 to 2022. He was a research fellow at the Museum of the City of Valencia (2002), the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia (2008), and the Department of Art History at the University of Valencia (2003-2007). His main research interests focus on Valencian art and ritual manifestations in the Valencian festive context, as well as studies of visual culture and Christian iconography, to which he has dedicated several monographs and articles in specialized journals. He has participated in the cataloging, assembly, and curating of exhibitions on the work of various Valencian artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Juli Peris Brell, Manuel Benedito, Manuel Sigüenza, Leonardo Borràs, Juan Francés, and more recently, Josep Renau, to whom he dedicated the exhibition Josep Renau and the Time of Images (2022). He also contributed to the development of the guide for the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia in 2008. He is the author or co-author of the works Ceràmica devocional d’Algemesí (2005); El Bolero d'Algemesí. Cent anys del Ball de les Llauradores (2006); Temps de casinos. El Casino Lliberal d’Algemesí (2007); La colección de arte Adolfo de Azcárraga del Ayuntamiento de Valencia (2009); Iconografia de sant Jaume cavaller. El retaule major d’Algemesí (2011); Un projecte insòlit. Els relleus de Leonardo Borràs (2017); Festes, danses i processons als arxius de la Casa Insa (2018) o Els guerrers de la festa. La dansa dels tornejants en la tradició valenciana (2022), among other publications. He is part of the research group APES (Visual Culture Studies) and is a member of the Spanish Society of Emblematics. Since 2023, he also directs the Chair of Traditional Music and Dance.
RAMOS GAY, IGNACIO PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatCoordinador/a de Mobilitat	(9639) 83567 ignacio.ramos@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
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RODRIGUEZ VARELA, RITA PDI-Ajudant Doctor/ACoordinador/a Curs	Departament de Filologia Francesa i Italiana Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació Universitat de València Despatx 40 83532 rita.rodriguez@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
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	KOTWICA, DOROTA MARIA PDI-Titular d'Universitat	Av. Blasco Ibáñez 32 46010 Valencia Facultad de Filología, Traducción y Comunicación, tercera planta, despacho 22 83308 dorota.kotwica@uv.es	Personal file	Biography
	Dorota Kotwica is a lecturer at the University of Valencia. She is part of the Val.Es.Co. research group and participates in the ESPRINT research project. Her main lines of research are pragmatics, discourse analysis, the categories of mitigation, intensification and evidentiality, and Spanish as a foreign language.