Edgar A. Garcia Valencia
Researcher of the Centro de Estudios de la Cultura y la Comunicacion (Center for the Study of Culture and Communication), Universidad Veracruzana.
Ph. D. in Literature from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).
Member of the National System of Researchers, Level I.
Contact: edggarcia@uv.mx
Academic page: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=dQ1tfDAAAAAJ&hl=es
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edgarvalenciauv/
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4941-1532
Research Interests: Emblematics, Rhetoric, Symbolic Culture, Colonialism in Latin America, Book History, Publishing Studies.
Semblanza: Bachelor in Communication from the Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Master in Literature from the Universidad Veracruzana and studied a Master in Hispanic Philology at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), in Madrid; PhD in
Literature from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is currently a member of the National System of Researchers. He has a wealth of experience as a publisher, having served as Editorial Director at Universidad Veracruzana and Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS). His professional career includes skills in strategic planning, editing, metadata, digital publications, and open access. Additionally, he has dedicated part of his career to studying image and literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He also has actively participated in the foundation of the Altexto Network and Cempro, a copyright collective management society. He is a member of the advisory boards of Altexto and the Asociación de Editoriales Universitarias de América Latina y el Caribe (Eulac).
His academic work has specialized in Mexican and Novohispanic literature, mainly in visual discourses, symbolic culture, public festivities, the use of ekphrasis and various rhetorical manifestations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 2021 he received the award
of Publishing Merit UANL for his work within the Editorial UV. His latest book is Fiesta, duelo y ascetismo. Cultura simbólica en la Nueva España y el México Independiente published by the Benemérita Universidad Autonoma De Puebla.
General Data Dr. Edgar Garcia Valencia
General Data
Name: Edgar Garcia Valencia
Academic Institution: Centro de Estudios de la Cultura y la Comunicación (Center for the Cultural Studies and Communication)
Last Degree of Studies: Doctorate
Line of Research: Cultural practices, discourses and memory
SNI Level: Level 1, National System of Researchers
PRODEP: Enrolled in the Program for the Professional Development of Teachers
UV Academic Group
Name of the Academic Group: Studies of Culture and Communication in Latin America
Degree of Consolidation: Consolidated
Role in the CA: Member
Recent Awards
National: Publishing Merit Award
Awarding Institution: Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
Award Date: March 17, 2021