Mery Cuesta, director of the Master in Illustration and Visual Narrative, PhD Cum Laude in Communication

Mery Cuesta, director of the Master in Illustration and Visual Narrative in Elisava, has completed her PhD Cum Laude in Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her PhD thesis, “Rostros de una calavera: La tradición iconográfica del retrato con calavera y sus proyecciones de sentido y sesgos de género en la Cultura visual contemporánea” (‘Faces of a skull: The iconographic tradition of the portrait with skull and its projections of meaning and gender biases in contemporary visual Culture’), gathers fourteen case studies and resignifies the contemporary visual motifs of the portraits with skull from a gender perspective.

Mery Cuesta’s professional career is focused on the cultural and communication sector. She participates as a cultural critic in some Spanish media and is the author of several series and comics. She has curated around thirty exhibitions on popular culture, outsider art and the functioning mechanisms of contemporary art. Furthermore, she is a professor in Universitat Pompeu Fabra’s Faculty of Communication.

Directors:
Ivan Pintor, PhD (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Marta Piñol, PhD (Universitat de Barcelona)

Tribunal:
Carolina Martínez, PhD (Universitat de Girona)
Gloria Durán, PhD (Universidad de Salamanca)
Manuel Garín, PhD (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)