Dr Agustin Rico-Albero

Agustín Rico-Albero has a BA in Modern Languages from the University of Valencia (Spain) and Nottingham Trent University (UK), an MA in Humanities from the University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain), and Postgraduate Diplomas in Audiovisual Translation and Teaching Spanish as foreign Language from the University Autónoma of Barcelona and University Antonio de Nebrija of Madrid respectively. He has taught Spanish and Film at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and the University of Leicester (UK), where he completed his PhD in Film Studies entitled ‘Representations of Violence in Contemporary Spanish Cinema’. He is currently a full-time Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Film at the University of Hertfordshire (UK) where he teaches Spanish language and culture, European film, intercultural communication in media contexts, and also contributed to the MA in Film and Television Aesthetics (online and face-to-face). He has participated in numerous international workshops, symposiums and conferences dedicated to Spanish film. He is the author of several works on Spanish film studies and language pedagogy, including contributions to the Directory of World Cinema Spain (2011, Intellect), a chapter on adolescent cinema and violence for (Re)viewing Creative, Critical and Commercial Practices in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (2014, Intellect), and a book chapter on Catalan cinema entitled Formal Disruption, Minutiae, and Absence in the Films of Jaime Rosales in Catalan Cinema The Barcelona Film School and the New Avant-Garde published by Toronto University Press. Since 2011 Agustín has been a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (UK).