Sergio Aguilar Alcalá

Sergio Aguilar Alcalá

Doctorate in Communication from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Master in Communication from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Graduate in Social Communication from the Autonomous University of Yucatán. Master in Management of Cultural Policies and Projects from the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is dedicated to the practice of psychoanalysis. He has more than 30 academic publications between Mexican and foreign magazines, in Spanish and English, chapters in collective books, academic translations, books as coordinator and a book he authored. His lines of research are psychoanalysis, communication theory, film theory and analysis, and the philosophy of language. He is a member of the Center for Research in Film Theory and Analysis (CITACINE) and the Lacanian Center for Research in Psychoanalysis (CLIP). He has received a scholarship from Birkbeck University of London to carry out a stay at the London Critical
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eorySummer School. He was Technical Secretary of the Permanent Seminar on Cinematographic Analysis (SEPANCINE) from 2018 to 2022. From 2020 to 2022 he carried out a research stay at the Universidad Iberoamericana under the project “Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South”, financed by the Andrew Mellon Grant. . During 2020 he was a recipient of the Alfonso Caso Medal, awarded by the National Autonomous University of Mexico to the best postgraduate student. He has been teaching at the university level since 2014, and has taught courses on film analysis and theory, documentary and horror film, communication theory and psychoanalysis at various universities in Mérida, Mexico City, Querétaro and Tijuana. He practiced cultural management for ten years, being co-producer of the Mérida International Fantastic and Morbid Horror Film Festival from 2010 to 2019, among other cultural projects.