Associate Professor and part of the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona


Amparo Huertas Bailén is Associate Professor at the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She directs the Institute of Communication (InCom-UAB) and is responsible for the International Study Group on Communication and Culture (2021SGR-00179 ). Since 2020, Huertas is also responsible for the UNESCO Chair in Communication based at UAB. Since 2021 she co-directs the collection “Comunicación y género”, from Comunicación Social Ediciones, and since 2022 she co-directs the academic journal Cuadernos del CAC, published by the Consejo del Audiovisual de Cataluña. Specialized in the study of audiences, she has developed several works on migrations, their media representation and cultural consumption.