Mínguez-Arranz, Norberto 1964–

PERSONAL: Born March 17, 1964, in Santander, Spain; son of Norberto Mínguez and Rufina Arranz; married Marián Cruz (an English professor), May 15, 1995; children: Mario, Juan. Education: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, B.A., 1987, Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Madrid, Certificate in English language, 1988; State University of New York at Buffalo, M.A., 1990; Ph.D., 1996.

ADDRESSES: Office—Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Avda. de la Complutense s/n 28040 Madrid, Spain. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer. Editorial Planeta, translator, 1982–83, graphic designer, 1984–87; Premio Planeta de Fotografía, II and III, coordinator, 1983–84; Vanidades, Revista de la Facultad de Filolgía de la Universidad de Salamanca, photographer, 1984–85; State University of New York, Buffalo, and D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY, Spanish instructor, 1990; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, assistant professor, 1991–94, associate professor, 1995–99, professor of communication, 2000–, Red de Institutos de Relaciones Internacionales, 1991–93; director of communication, 1994–97. Colegio Universitario de Segovia, visiting associate professor, 1999. Instituto de Europa Oriental, director of communication; Villafañe y Asociados, associated consultant in corporate image and communication, 1999–. Member, Junta Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, 1998–99.

WRITINGS:

(With Justo Villafañe) Principios de teoría general de la imagen, Pirámide (Madrid, Spain), 1996.

Le novela y el cine: Análisis comparado de dos discursos narrativos, Ediciones de la Mirada (Valencia, Spain), 1998, translation by the author published as Spanish Film and the Postwar Novel: Reading and Watching Narrative Texts, Praeger (Westport, CT), 2002.

La palabra y la imagen: anatomía comparada de dos modos de representación, Ediciones Epísteme (Valencia, Spain), 1998.

(Editor and contributor) Literatura española y cine, Editorial Complutense (Madrid, Spain), 2002.

(Editor, with Nuria Villagra) La communicación: nuevos discursos y perspectivas, Edipo (Madrid, Spain), 2004.

Contributor of articles to journals, including Área Abierta, Zer Revista de Estudios de Comunicación, Área Cinco Revista de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicitaria, Cuadernos del Este, Thesaurus, and Compás de Letras. Also contributor to books.