E-mail: ehoyo@campus.ul.pt

Elena Cordero Hoyo graduated in Journalism and Media Studies from the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid (2011), from which she also holds a master’s degree in Spanish Cinema Studies (2013). She is a member of the research group “Presence and Representation of Women in Early Cinema”, from the University of Girona (HAR2015-66262-P), and she is an editor of Secuencias, an online film history journal.

She entered PhD-COMP in 2016/2017, receiving a scholarship (PD/BD/128075/2016). She is currently carrying out  a research project on women’s access to the cinema industry in Spain and Portugal during the silent period, oriented by Professors Luísa Afonso Soares (Universidade de Lisboa), Begoña Soto Vázquez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid) and Monica Dall’Asta (Università di Bologna).

She is a member in training of the Centre for Comparative Studies (University of Lisbon), and is part of the research projects Cinema and the World: Studies on Space and Cinema e DIIA-Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues.