Cristina Sánchez Sánchez

Cristina Sánchez is the Communications Manager for the Global Literary Studies Research Lab (GlobaLS) and the ERC StG project “Social Networks of the Past. Mapping Hispanic and Lusophone Literary Modernity, 1898-1959” (Grant agreement 803860) led by Diana Roig-Sanz at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

She holds a degree in advertising and public relations (2014, earning an Extraordinary End of Studies Award), a masters’ degree in social communications research (2015), and a PhD in communications (2020, Cum Laude), all from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her doctoral thesis won first prize at the XXXII Awards for Research on Audiovisual Communication organised by the Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya (Catalan Government).

Previously, she worked as a communications trainee at cultural and non-governmental organizations (2013-2014), as a teaching and research assistant at the Department of Communications at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2014-2015), and as a predoctoral researcher, also at said department (2015-2019), collaborating with the research groups Medium, CritiCC and UNICA.

Her main research lines include narrative-semiotic discourse and image analyses, the study of media and political communication, critical studies on happiness, the rhetoric of social problems, and the relationship between socioeconomic contexts and public discourse.

Selected Bibliography

Sanchez-Sanchez, Cristina. La Felicidad como Problema y Solución Políticos. Análisis sobre lo Socialmente Deseable a través de las Medidas de Bienestar de Gobiernos e Instituciones Internacionales y de los Spots Electorales Españoles de Antes y de Después de la Crisis Económica de 2008. Department of Communications, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020 [doctoral thesis]

Sanchez-Sanchez, Cristina, and Xavier Ruiz Collantes. “Narrativas de la Crisis Económica: El Nacional Neoliberalismo en la Publicidad Española (2008-2017)”. Palabra Clave, vol. 22, no. 2, 2019, pp. 511-547

Gómez-Puertas, Lorena, Reinald Besalú-Casademont, and Cristina Sanchez-Sanchez. “La Crisis y sus Héroes. Realidad Subyacente en las Series de Ficción Televisiva más Populares en España (2008-2015)”. La Realidad Audiovisual como Nuevo Vehículo de Comunicación, edited by José Muñoz Jiménez, Silvia Martínez Martínez and Beatriz Peña Acuña, Gedisa, 2018.

Sanchez-Sanchez, Cristina, and Xavier Ruiz Collantes. “La Felicidad en Tiempos de Crisis: Análisis Semio-Narrativo de la Publicidad Española (2008-2017)”. II Congreso de la Red Iberoamericana de Investigadores en Publicidad: Comprender la Publicidad para Transformar la Sociedad, organized by Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina, Quito, 2018.

Sanchez-Sanchez, Cristina. “Moving Towards a General Definition of Public Happiness: A Grounded Theory Approach to the Recent Academic Research on Well-Being”. International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, vol. 11, no. 7, 2017, pp. 1624-1639.

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