Bio note

Vicente Sánchez-Biosca is Senior Professor for Visual Culture and Communication at the University of Valencia and held the chair for Spanish Civilization at the KJC (New York University) in 2013, as well as co-directed the chair for Art Studies at the IVAM (2016-2018). He was managing editor of the academic journal Archivos de la Filmoteca between 1992 and 2012. He has been visiting professor and scholar in numerous universities, such as Montréal, NYU, Princeton, Paris-Sorbonne, Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Sao Paulo, Technische Universität Berlin, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, among others. He has been PI of a number of research projects. The latest of them «Contemporary representations of the perpetrator of mass violence: concepts, narratives and images» (with A. Ferrer), «From crime scene to place of memory», «Enigmas of memory: desecration and conquest of the monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus» (with RR Tranche) and currently «New Paradigms in the Cultural Representation of Spaces of Mass Violence: recounting the 20th century from the 21st century» (with J. Peris). Among his recent publications, Film and Spanish civil war: from myth to memory, Murderous gazes and victims’ eyes: Images of the affliction in Cambodia, and The Death in Their Eyes. What Do Perpetrator Images Perpetrate (forthcoming in Berghahn Books). He has edited with Brigitte Jirku Geographies of Perpetration. Re-Signifying Cultural Narratives of Mass Violence (2021), and the monographic issues Images and Collective Violence: Function, Use and Memory, in Genocide Studies and Prevention. (with L. Zylberman), and Tuol Sleng. A History of the Cambodian Genocide under Construction, Memories at Stake (with S. Benzaquen y A-L Porée).