NAPCED — New Applications of Critical Pedagogy to Digital Education in Literary and Audiovisual Culture
The Consolidated Educational Innovation Group NAPCED: New Applications of Critical Pedagogy to Digital Education in Literary and Audiovisual Culture (ref. GCID23_2580121) combines the work of seven lecturers and five doctoral students from the Departments of English and German Studies and Theory of Languages and Communication Sciences at the Universitat de València. One of its main objectives is to promote interdepartmental collaboration in teaching and the design of pedagogical materials, projects, and activities that encourage the development and expression of critical thinking in our students, both in their first and second languages. Through active learning methodologies, we design multimodal learning materials that strengthen our students’ creativity, autonomy, professionalization, and knowledge dissemination in virtual environments. Our team members have participated in 8 educational innovation projects funded by the University’s Staff Development and Educational Innovation Service, to date (you can access our previous projects by referring to the “History of the Group” section). In addition, the group maintains close ties with the LENA Research Group (North American Ethnic Minority Literatures in a Global Context) of the Universitat de València, especially through its permanent research seminar, the LENA Research Seminar Series, through which we organize lectures and research activities (https//www.uv.es/lenaval).
Our educational innovation project applies parameters, concepts, and methodologies for the development of the study of literature in digital and performative environments considered within the transversal paradigm of Education 4.0 (Hussin 2018). Key concepts such as digitization, personalized training, collaborative learning through projects, or multiple literacies support it (Mazzara, 2011-12; Cope and Kalantzis 2015; Basabara, 2016; Tabernero 2016 and 2013; Lázaro, 2020). During the academic years 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024, this project aimed at the study and possible applications of cyber-literary genres or digital literary genres in higher education, approached from the general framework of critical pedagogy. To this end, we have developed an already well-established interdepartmental collaboration between faculty members, and students from both degrees who serve as peer mentors. We have recently published the book Géneros (meta)literarios digitales y creación audiovisual. Aplicaciones educativas y profesionales (Eds. Anna M. Brígido Corachán, Rosanna Mestre Pérez y Nel.lo Pellisser Rossell. Tirant Lo Blanch 2024). The group organizes seminars, workshops, and contests and disseminates its research and activities through the Youtube channel Napced-UVEG and thorugh Lèna’s Instagram account: lena-uveg.
During the 2025-2026 academic year, the NAPCED team redirected its research towards the fields of environmental and digital humanities through the study of spaces of memory in literature and audiovisual culture. On December 1st and 2nd, we organized our first seminar dedicated to this topic, entitled “Spaces of Memory: Re/Constructions of the Environment in Literature and Audiovisual Culture,” and launched a new edition of the NAPCED theater workshop with the performance of two plays about climate change, as part of the Climate Change Action Theatre Festival, a global network that raises awareness about the impact we have on the environment (See activities section).
Teaching innnovation/research projects financed by the Vicerrectorado de Transformación Docente y Formación Permanente (Servei de Formació Permanent i Innovació Educativa) at the University of Valencia
Academic Year 2021-2022 – UV-SFPIE_PID-1641518: Nuevas aplicaciones de la pedagogía crítica y de la educación para el desarrollo al análisis de textos literarios anglófonos en entornos digitales y performativos I.
Academic Year 2022-2023 – UV-SFPIE_PID-2084413: NAPCED 4.0. Nuevas aplicaciones de la pedagogía crítica y de la educación para el desarrollo al análisis de textos literarios anglófonos en entornos digitales y performativos II.
Academic Year 2023-2024 – UV-SFPIE_PIEC-2736837: Expresión del pensamiento crítico-creativo a Itravés de textos literarios e intermediales en los Grados de Estudios Ingleses y Comunicación Audiovisual.
Academic Year 2024-2025 – UV-SFPIE_PIEC-3340732: NAPCED 4.2. Desarrollo del pensamiento crítico-creativo y del análisis literario e intermedial en entornos digitales colaborativos.
Current project – Academic Year 2025-2026
“NAPCED 4.3. Identitats Culturals, sostenibilitat i territori: aproximacions literàries i audiovisuals en contextos digitals i performatius” (UV-SFPIE-PIEC-3901539)
GROUP MEMBERS
Director
Anna M. Brígido Corachán – Dept. Filología Inglesa y Alemana – Universitat de València
Members
Rosanna Mestre Pérez – Dept. Teoría de los Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Comunicación
Manuel Pellicer Rossell – Dept. Teoría de los Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Comunicación
Ana Fernández-Caparrós Turina – Dept. Filología Inglesa y Alemana
Carme Manuel Cuenca – Dept. Filología Inglesa y Alemana
Jesús Tronch Pérez – Dept. Filología Inglesa y Alemana
Vicent Cucarella Ramón – Dept. Filología Inglesa y Alemana
External collaborators
Andrea Herrera, Ph.D. – University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Sofía Medina López – IES Doctor Faustí Barberà – Doctorado Investigación en Lenguas y Literaturas UV
Doctoral students:
Mónica Bru Cantero
Irene Izquierdo Marqueño
Anesa Muslimovic Ortega
Magdalena Pellicer Lázaro
Rosa Segarra Montero
Most Recent Event
Contact: napced@uv.es
Webmasters: Anna M. Brígido-Corachán, Rosanna Mestre, Magdalena Pellicer & Anesa Muslimovic
– update in progress, january 2026