Ramon Girona Duran

Ramon Girona Duran serves as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philology and Communication at the University of Girona's Faculty of Arts, teaching Cultural Communication, Advertising and Public Relations degrees, and the Master's in Communication and Cultural Studies. He currently holds the position of Vice-Dean of Arts and previously coordinated both the Advertising/Public Relations Degree (2012-2015) and Cultural Communication Degree (2015-2018).

His academic foundation includes a bachelor's degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a doctorate from the University of Girona.

Girona Duran specializes in propaganda cinema, particularly American WWII documentaries like Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight' series, examining their historical and rhetorical strategies. His research extends to film history (early cinema, surrealist movements), public relations theory, and intersections of cinema with advertising and tourism. Recent work analyzes mental health representations in post-war documentaries and rural imagery in contemporary Catalan/Francophone media.

His publication trends reveal consistent focus on political communication through film, evolving from WWII propaganda studies to contemporary analyses of rural identity and gender representation. Key subfields include documentary discourse construction, archival footage utilization, and the role of film in shaping collective memory.

Scientific awards: No awards or honors are documented in available sources.

As an academic administrator, he has led curriculum development for two degree programs while securing competitive research funding. His project portfolio includes EU-funded initiatives like 'Shababuna: our youth' (2021-2023) and nationally funded studies on immigration competencies (2009-2010) and sick body representations in visual media (2022-2025).

He actively contributes to the Research Group in Social and Institutional Communication and the Research Group on Theories of Contemporary Art, where interdisciplinary collaborations examine cinema's role in political discourse and cultural memory formation.