Alberto Pena Rodríguez is an Associate Professor of Media History at the University of Vigo, where he is the coordinator of the research group of Propaganda (CA1). He holds a PhD in Information Sciences (with European Mention) from the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD in History from the UNED. He has been FLAD/Brown Michael Teague Visiting Professor in Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Endowed Chair Professor in Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and University of California Berkeley. His lines of research study, in an interdisciplinary way, aspects related to the phenomenon of the inmigrant and transnational press, the Spanish Civil War, Iberian fascism/anti-fascism, as well as the general analysis of the historical discourse of propaganda. Among his books are News on the American Dream. A History of the Portuguese Press in the United States of America(University of Massachusetts Press, 2019), Salazar y Franco. La alianza del fascismo ibérico contra la República española (Ediciones Trea, 2017), Salazar y el fascismo español (Coimbra University Press, 2017), A Guerra da Propaganda. Portugal, Brasil e a Guerra Civil de Espanha (ediPUCRS, 2014), O Que Parece É. Salazar, Franco e a Propaganda contra a Espanha Democrática (Edições Tinta da China, 2009), Salazar, a Imprensa e a Guerra Civil de Espanha (MinervaCoimbra, 2007), Galicia, Franco y Salazar (Universidad de Vigo, 1999) o El gran aliado de Franco. Portugal y la Guerra Civil española (Ediciós do Castro, 1998). Some of his edited or co-edited books are (with Heloisa Paulo et al.) Migrações e exílios no mundo contemporáneo (2019) and A cultura do poder. A propaganda nos estados autoritários (2016), (with Mário Mesquita and Paula Vicente) Galiza e Açores. A rota americana (2012) and Emigración e exilio nos Estados Unidos de América: experiencia de Galicia e Azores (2015), Comunicación y guerra en la historia (2003) or A comunicación social transfronteiriza (2000).