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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.

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