Teaching staff
MIREN ITXASO DEL CASTILLO AIRA
- Knowledge area
- Audio-visual Communications and Advertising
- Department
- Audio Visual Communications and Advertising
- Centre
- Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences
- Electronic mail
- mirenitxaso.castillo@ehu.eus
Itxaso del Castillo Aira is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Audiovisual Communication at the University of the Basque Country. She holds a degree in Journalism from the UPV/EHU, a Master in Film and TV Studies from the University van Amsterdam, a Master in Creative Documentary from the Pompeu i Fabra University and a PhD in Social Communication (2020). She has published the book ‘Mujeres furiosas. El monstruo femenino en el audiovisual de terror". (2024, UPV/EHU). She has nearly 20 publications, in different journals and publishing houses, and is co-IP of the Basque Government's ADI research group on Cultural Industry, Narratives and Gender(s). Prior to teaching, she worked as a scriptwriter, coordinator, assistant director and director in entertainment, fiction and documentary programmes at EiTB for 13 years.