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Miguel Rivas Venegas (Madrid, 1989) is Doctor Summa Cum Laude in Art History from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2018). Having developed his PhD research as an invited PhD researcher at the Humboldt Universitätzu Berlin, his work grasped the compared analysis of visual communication and language use of transnational fascism (1931-1945), with specific focus on the “visual-lexical arsenals” of Francoism and Nationalsocialism. AsEHU/UPV Postdoctoral researcher of the Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Programme (Spanish Ministry of Science), his current research focus both on the qualitative analysis of political language use of Spanish right-wing populism in transnational perspective (German-speaking countries, Italy, France) and the simultaneous study of the self-representation strategies and visual materials produced by contemporary rechtspopulismus in Europe. His undercurrent research interests include: Nation-building macro-narratives, the study of national identities, gender studies and the categorization of political metaphors, amongst others.
He is also member of the Cluster of Excellence EXC 2020 Temporal Communities: doing literature in a Global Perspective (FreieUniversität Berlin) where he was researching as Postdoctoral Fellow in 2019, as well as part of the research group “Hate Pictures”: Bildpraktiken und aversive Emotionen in der visuellenKultur des Politischen (TechnischeUniversität Berlin). He also researched and worked, amongst other places, at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and at the MuseoNacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.