We continue to welcome newcomers: Joaquim Rius, from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, and Domingo Pujante, from the Department of French and Italian Philology, have recently joined the team.
He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Valencia, where he teaches the sociology of culture, cultural management, sociological theory, and the sociology of social change. He is the author of several books and articles on the sociology of culture and cultural policy in national and international journals such as REIS, RIS, RES, Papers, Urban Studies, European Planning Studies, and the International Journal of Cultural Policy. He was director of Debates. Revista de cultura, poder y sociedad (Alfonso el Magnánimo Institution) from 2015 to 2024, and director of the Center for Studies on Culture, Power, and Identities at the University of Valencia. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Española de Sociología, the International Journal of Cultural Policy, and the Publicaciones de la Universitat de València (University of Valencia), where he directs the Culture and Digital Change collection. His research interests focus on the sociology of culture and cultural policies.
He is a Full Professor of French Philology at the University of Valencia, with four six-year research periods (in 2020). He received an extraordinary undergraduate and doctoral award for his thesis "The Panic Work of Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor" (2003). In 2013, he founded the research group GIUV-2013-144-HYBRIDA: Cultural Hybridities and Migrant Identities which he has directed ever since, as well as the scientific journal HYBRIDA. He is interested in cultural studies from a gender, postcolonial, and intersectional perspective, as well as in identity issues linked to sexualities and migration. He has been a visiting professor and researcher at numerous institutions in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, including visits to the universities of Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Limoges, Picardy, Paris-Sorbonne, Free University of Brussels, Sousse, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Virginia, California at Berkeley, and the Laboratory for Gender and Sexuality Studies (LEGS) in Paris. He was awarded the insignia of "Knight of the Order of Academic Palms" by the Ministry of Education of the French Republic (2017).
