Fitxa persona

Ana Clara Rey Segovia holds a PhD in Communication and Interculturality from the University of Valencia, awarded with Summa Cum Laude distinction. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the analysis of representations of the future in contemporary cinema, with particular attention to dystopian narratives and their connections to social and cultural crises.

She has been teaching at the University of Valencia since 2017 and, since 2026, has held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Language Theory and Communication Sciences, teaching courses related to audiovisual communication, film studies, and contemporary audiovisual culture.

Her research explores cinema and audiovisual culture as sites for the production and contestation of social imaginaries, with a special interest in media utopias and dystopias and their aesthetic and sociocultural implications. She is a member of the research project “Decolonizing Utopia: Non-Western, Anti-Colonial, and Decolonial Utopianism” (PID2024-157039NB-I00), developed by the HISTOPÍA research team within the Spanish National Plan for Scientific, Technical, and Innovation Research (2025–2028), which advances a critical and global approach to utopian studies from plural and decolonial perspectives. She is also a member of the Transatlantic Network for the Study of Utopias and the Decolonhist Network (Decolonizing the History of the Atlantic Area).

She has published extensively on dystopia and contemporary cinema in academic journals and edited volumes, contributing to ongoing debates in audiovisual studies, cultural theory, and critical media analysis.