Dafne Muntanyola-Saura

Dafne Muntanyola-Saura (PhD UAB 2008) is a Tenured Assistant Professor at the department of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de  Barcelona. She has been a postdoctoral scholar at Université de Nice,  at the department of Cognitive Science at University de California, San Diego (UCSD), and at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with the scholarships Caja Madrid,  Fulbright and Alianza. Her research crosses over the disciplinary boundaries of cognitive science and sociology of the arts to cover social interactions in professional and artistic settings with a strong theoretical component. Methodologically, she applies audiovisual ethnography, Social Network Analysis and Conversational Analysis. She has worked with experts in hospitals, and artists in visual arts, dance and filmmaking. She published in & Psychology, Revue de Synthèse, Quality & Quantity; Gender, Work & Organization and Revista Internacional de Sociología among others. She interviewed and translated y Kirsh into Spanish and she enjoys writing book reviews: recently in Sociology, Feminism & Psychology, REIS and International Sociology.She is the President of the Working Group on Sociology of Culture and the Arts form the Spanish Sociological Federation.