Alberto Pena Rodríguez

Alberto Pena Rodríguez holds a PhD (Doctor Europeus) in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD in History from the National University of Education Distance (UNED). Currently, he is Full Professor of Media History in the School of Communication at the University of Vigo, where he was Dean (two terms). Among other universities where he has worked, he has been Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation Endowed Chair Professor in Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and FLAD/ Brown Michael Teague Visting Professor in Portuguese & Brazilian Studies at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). He is the author of works such as Salazar and Franco. La alianza del fascismo ibérico contra la España republicana: diplomacia, prensa y propaganda (Trea, 2017), News on the American dream. A history of the Portuguese press in the United States (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020) or Comunicar en la diáspora. Prensa, periodismo, radio, exilio y propaganda entre los inmigrantes portugueses en Estados Unidos (Comares, 2021). He has published more than a half hundred articles in scientific journals such as Media History, Radio Journal, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies or Journal of Iberian & Latin American Research, as well as more than one hundred book chapters in publishing houses such as Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Lang or Bloomsbury. He has been president of the Association of Communication Historians and director of the History Section of the Spanish Association of Communication Research. As a journalist, he has worked for several media, including the Spanish Public Television (TVE), the Spanish Public Radio