Personal Information  

Date of birth: 21 March 1979, Madrid

Nationality: Spanish

Address: Príncipe, 2 2ºC – 28100 Alcobendas (Madrid) – Spain 

Phone number: 675 205 574

E-mail: carlos.cornejo@uam.es   soy.carlos@yahoo.es

Institutional Address

Department of Geography, Faculty of Liberal Arts

Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM)

Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco – 28049 Madrid  

Educational Background

• Degree in Dramatic Arts, Chekov Chamber Theater, Madrid, 2003
• Ba. History of Art, UAM 2008  
• Ma. History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, UAM and Reina Sofía National Museum and Art Centre, Madrid, 2009
• Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. Geography, UAM, 2009-2013

Provisional title of the thesis: Historic visions of Sierra Nevada (Granada): the iconography of a mountain landscape throughout Modern and Contemporary History

Research Interests: Historical and cultural geography; history of landscape in 18^th-20^th century Europe; history of geographical thought; history of cartography

Academic honors, awards and courses  

• October 2009-2013: FPI-UAM Research Grant for PhD Candidates, UAM, Madrid
• May 2012: Grant for PhD students to attend the seminar “Landscape and resources 2012”, organized by the Nordic Landscape Research Group. Stockholm University and Gotland University
• January-April 2011: 3-month fellowship grant for PhD candidates to attend the course on cinema “Ingmar Bergman revisited: art, media and Intermediality”, taught by Professor Maaret Koskinen, Stockholm Filmhuset, Stockholm University. Grade: A
• November 2008-September 2009: Scholarship Grant for Postgraduate Studies, Dept. Theory and History of Art, UAM
• November 23-26, 2008: VII Arquímedes Academic National Contest, Salamanca, Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (MICINN). Award in Best Research in the Area of Fine Arts with a dissertation entitled Iconography of Spanish Mountain in Contemporary Painting (1830-1950)
• Academic Year 2007-2008: Collaboration Scholarship with Dpt. Theory and History of Art, UAM
• Academic Year 2006-2007: Excellence Certificate for Student Achievement, Madrid

International research fellowships

• September-December 2012: 3-month fellowship in the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol. Supervisor: Veronica della Dora
• January-April 2011: 3-month fellowship in the Faculty of Humanities, Stockholm University. Supervisor: Kataryna Kyröla

Personal skills

Mother tongue: Spanish

Other languages:

English   

·         Reading skills: excellent; Writing skills: excellent; Verbal skills: fluent  

·         Degrees: First Certificate in English, Cambridge University, 2000. Grade C

·         Graduate up to Level C1, Official Centre of Languages, Madrid, 2003  

Swedish

·         Reading skills: good; Writing skills: basic; Verbal skills: basic

·         Degree: Level A2, Official Centre of Languages, Madrid, 2012

French

·         Reading skills: very good; Writing skills: basic; Verbal skills: basic

Work experience

Teaching support

·         Subject matter: Evolution of Geographical Thought, B.A. Geography, UAM

February 20-March 5, 2012

·         Subject matter: Geographical Thought and Territorial Planning in 20^th century Spain, M.A. Spanish and Latin American Philosophical Thought, UAM

February 20-March 5, 2012

Supporting scholarship holder 

·         Diverse supporting activities in the Dept. Theory and History of Art, UAM

2007-2008

Papers in scientific meetings

• 32^nd IGU International Geographical Congress Down to Earth: (co-authored Juan Vázquez) ‘The landscape of Toledo (Spain) from Los Cigarrales: cultural and symbolic interpretations of a natural site (1547-1621)’.

International Geographic Union, Cologne, Germany. August 26-30, 2012

• I Conference of Young Researchers UAM-CSIC: ‘Geographical thought and the representation of Spanish mountain landscapes in contemporary art’.

UAM, Madrid. February 22-23, 2012

• Colloque international Patrimonialiser la nature: valeurs et processus: ‘Aesthetic heritage of Sierra Nevada (1830-1900): origins, processes and outcomes’.

Université de Pau et du Pays de l'Adour, Pau, France. September 7-9, 2011

• 30^th IGU Regional Conference Bridging Diversity in a Globalizing World: ‘Mountain landscapes: places of autobiographical identity for the contemporary artist’. International Geographic Union, Tel Aviv, Israel. July 12-16, 2010
• XII Coloquio de Geografía del Turismo, Ocio y Recreación (AGE) Espacios y destinos turísticos en tiempos de globalización y crisis: ‘La mercantilización de la estética del paisaje: el valor de las imágenes en el primer turismo alpino’.

Carlos III University, Madrid. June 17-19, 2010

• International Conference Ciudad, territorio y paisaje. Una mirada multidisciplinar: Chair, organizing and scientific committee together with Juan Morán (UCM) and José Prada (CCHS-CSIC).

Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC, Madrid. May 5-7, 2010

• Landscape Seminar Los valores del paisaje: ‘Los valores morales del paisaje en la pintura de montaña’.

Duques de Soria Foundation and UAM, Soria, Spain. July 7-11, 2008

Publications

• ‘Ciudad, territorio y paisaje: una mirada multidisciplinar’ (co-author: José Prada Trigo), Biblio 3W. Revista bibliográfica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, Vol. XV, no. 917, 2011, Universidad de Barcelona, <http://www.ub.es/geocrit/b3w-917.htm>. [ISSN 1138-9796]
• Ciudad, territorio y paisaje: Reflexiones para un debate multidisciplinar (co-edited with Juan Morán Sáez and José Prada Trigo), Madrid, CSIC, 2010. Also the introductory chapter, pp. 5-8.  ISBN: 978-84-92943-28-9
• Review of the co-edited book Lenguajes y visiones del paisaje y del territorio, Estudios Geográficos, Vol. 71, no. 269, Madrid, CSIC, 2010, pp. 691-693. ISSN: 0014-1496
• ‘La mercantilización de la estética del paisaje: el valor de las imágenes en el primer turismo alpino’, Annals of XII Coloquio de Geografía del Turismo, Ocio y Recreación (AGE), Espacios y destinos turísticos en tiempos de globalización y crisis (in press)
• ‘Los 'Intermediality Studies' y el cine de Ingmar Bergman, o como deconstruir el discurso establecido’, Sesión no numerada: Revista de letras y ficción audiovisual, no. 2, 2012, pp. 247-253. ISSN 2173-5123

Articles refereed

• “Cantar haikus: correspondencias entre la escritua de Chantal Maillard y el cine de Andrei Tarkovski”, Sesión no numerada: Revista de letras y ficción audiovisual
• “Un concepto de paisaje y la planeación urbana”, Bitácora Urbano Territorial