Roman Gubern

ROMÁN GUBERN GARRIGA-NOGUÉS (Barcelona, 8-8-1934), Doctor of Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1980) and Honorary Doctorate from the Carlos III University of Madrid (2013), has worked as a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1971-72) and has been a professor of Film History at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) (1975-77), as well as at Venice International University (Italy, September-December 1998) and founder and director of the Cervantes Institute in Rome (1994-95). Since 1983 he has been Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, of which he has also been Dean (1987-88). Since 2004, after his retirement, he has served as Professor Emeritus at the same institution and directs the Creative Documentary master's degree at the same institution (since 1998).

He has been president of the Spanish Association of Film Historians (1990-95) and of the Collegiate Association of Writers of Catalonia, he is a member of the Association Française pour la Recherche sur l'Histoire du Cinéma, an academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain, of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain, of the Catalan Cinema Academy, of the Catalan Communication Society, of the Board of Trustees of the Teatre Lliure of Barcelona, of the Luís Buñuel Institute (SGAE), of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the Honor Committee of the International Association for Visual Semiotics and of the council of the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics. Founding member of the Eina School of Communication and Design (Barcelona) in 1967 and of the Institut del Cinema Català in 1975. He has given numerous lectures (at Harvard University, the California Institute of Arts, Yale University, New York University , the MoMA, the Sorbonne University (Paris), the Paris VIII University, the Sapienza University of Rome, the Helsinki Cinematheque, the Venice Biennale, etc.). Medal from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 1986, jury of the Film Festivals of San Sebastián, Huelva, Valladolid, Las Palmas, Montpellier, Nantes and Dijon (France), of the Venice Biennale in 1986 and president of the jury of the festival of Mar del Plata in 2005, Officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France, 1994), honorary professor of the University of Lima (1995), medal of the Spanish Association of Film Historians (2004), Gold medal of the Fine Arts Arts (2010) and Sant Jordi Prize for Cinematography from Radio Nacional de España (2011). Creu de Sant Jordi of the Generalitat of Catalonia (2013)