Who’s who

Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo

Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo is lecturer at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; previously he was researcher at the Universidade do Porto. From 2012 to 2015, he lectured at the University of Dublin, in Ireland. Vargas Díaz Toledo has been involved in several research groups, including, but not limited to, the Seminar on Medieval and Renaissance Philology at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares and the Research Centre of the Faculty of Letters of the Universidade de Lisboa (CLEPUL), and SMELPS, from the Instituto de Filosofía da Universidade do Porto. He also leads the project Almoroul’s Universe:, an online database on 16th to 18th-century Portuguese chivalric literature.

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Iván Villarmea Álvarez

Areas of Interest: Film Studies — Film History — Iberian Cinemas — Portuguese Film — Spanish Film — Galician Film

Iván Villarmea Álvarez is an Assistant Professor of History of Film at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) and Associated Researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He is the author of Documenting Cityscapes. Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film (2015) and co-editor the volumes Jugar con la Memoria. El Cine Portugués en el Siglo XXI (2014, with Horacio Muñoz Fernéndez) and New Approaches to Cinematic Space (2019, with Filipa Rosário).

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