Gloria Fernández Somoza

Gloria Fernández Somoza
E-mail
gloria.fernandez@salle.url.edu
Building
La Salle - IASLAB
Address
C. Sant Joan de LaSalle 7, 08022, Barcelona
Section
Digital Arts
Animation and Digital Arts
Position
Academic Coordination



Coordinator, Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Arts, La Salle

La Salle Campus Barcelona – Universitat Ramon Llull

Academic Background 

  • PhD in Art History – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2001
  • Master’s Degree in Cultural Management: Herritage, Tourism and Nature – Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset–Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2005.
  • Master’s Degree in Art History – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1999
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Geography and History – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1993

Teaching Activity 

Since 2019, she has been a Senior Lecturer at La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull, teaching subjects related to art history, new media, and contemporary visual culture.
Senior Lecturer at the Escola Superior de Disseny (Universitat Ramon Llull) between 2012 and 2019, where she taught theory and history of design, architectural history, and project´based courses.
Adjunct Lecturer at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (2008–2010), teaching History of Contemorary Art and historical heritage within a master’s programme.
Lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2003–2004), where she taught prehistoric art, Pre´Columbian art, and iconography.
Adjunct Lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1997–1999), teaching Romanesque and Gothic art, medieval art practice, and contemporary architecture.

Research Activity

Research activity focused on the meaning of artistic imagery and its contextual relationship with architectural space, with the aim of understanding artworks within their cultural, social, and artistic environment. She has participated in around ten R+D projects at both national and regional levels; she is the author of three books and has published more than thirty articles in specialized, impact-indexed journals, as well as in collective volumes and catalogues. She has been a speaker at numerous national and international conferences, and has also organized academic meetings and undertaken research stays at internationally renowned academic institutions.

Professional Activity

In the professional field, her career has focused on cultural management and curatorship, including the direction of institutions devoted to artistic heritage. In this regard, she has developed projects for ICOM and for various public and private entities, with experience in urban cataloguing and the preservation of architectural heritage. Within the sphere of university academic management, she has served as Director of ESDi (a center affiliated with Ramon Llull University) and as an advisor and collaborator for the quality assurance agencies AQU-Catalunya and UNIBASQ.