Pablo Suárez-Mansilla

Pablo Suárez-Mansilla is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in media studies, sociology of culture, and computational analytics. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Department of Media Studies and the Amsterdam School of Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture (AHM – AIHR). Concurrently, he is a doctoral candidate in Society, Technology, and Culture at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona. Until recently, he was a research fellow in the ERC Starting Grant project «Social Networks of the Past: Mapping Hispanic and Lusophone Literary Modernity, 1898–1959».

Under the supervision of Diana Roig-Sanz and Julia Noordegraaf, his doctoral research investigates the role of cultural mediators and value transfer in shaping the transnational film field during the interwar period (late 1920s–early 1930s) in Spain and the Río de la Plata region. His approach integrates historical sociology, comparative cinema, media history, data science, and epistemology, all situated within a Bourdieusian sociological framework. Central to his research methodology is an innovative use of digitized periodical archives for empirical investigation into cultural production and circulation.

He holds a BA in Communication Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and an MA in Aesthetics and Film Studies from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona. Additionally, he has undertaken postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford and Leiden University. Over time, he has progressively oriented his academic trajectory toward sociological inquiry, emphasizing the construction of research objects that bridge empirical methodologies from the social sciences and the humanities. He maintains a particular interest in the sociology and philosophy of knowledge.

He actively participates in several international research communities, including the Netherlands Research School for Media Studies (RMeS), the CREATE Lab and the Digital Heritage Research Group at the University of Amsterdam, and the Global Literary Studies Research Lab. He also collaborates externally with the Audiovisual Studies Research Group at USC and the Aesthetic Research of Audiovisual Media Group CINEMA at UPF. Alongside his scholarly activities, he engages in creative practice, producing videos and texts that reflect and complement his academic research, underscoring his commitment to exploring intersections between science, culture, and society.

Bibliografia seleccionada

Suárez-Mansilla, Pablo i Ventsislav Ikoff. “Intercultural transfers in cinema dynamics. A global and digital approach to early writings on cinema through the Uruguayan periodicals archive”. The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative New Cinema Histories, editat per Daniela Treveri, Pierluigi Ercole i Lies Van de Vijver, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.