Teaching staff
AIDA VALLEJO VALLEJO
- Knowledge area
- Audio-visual Communications and Advertising
- Department
- Audio Visual Communications and Advertising
- Centre
- Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences
- Electronic mail
- aida.vallejo@ehu.eus
Aida Vallejo works as associate professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication of the University of the Basque Country, where she teaches documentary film theory and practise, and narrative theory.
Expert on creative documentary and film festivals, having worked in these fields as a critic, scriptwriter, selection committee member, researcher and lecturer. She has co-edited Film Festivals and Anthropology (Cambridge SP) and Documentary Film Festivals Vol.1 and Vol.2 (Palgrave MacMillan). https://www.ehu.eus/ehusfera/aidavallejo/publicaciones/
She holds a PhD in History of Cinema by Autonomous University of Madrid, and a MA on theory and practice of documentary film by Autonomous University of Barcelona. She BAs in Audiovisual Communication (UPV/EHU) and Socio-cultural Antrhopology (UNED).
Visiting researcher at universities of Scotland, Greece, Czech Republic and Hungary, and several international festivals.
Areas in which I am interested in supervising research students: Documentary film, Film festivals, Narratology, Anthropology/Ethnography of cinema, Cultural/Creative industries.
Member of the steering committee of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) and the founder and coordinator of its Documentary Workgroup.
Principal Investigator of IkerFESTS of various research projects about film festivals in the Basque context: IkerFESTS and "Film Festival Encounters"