I am Professor of English Literature, Drama and Theatre in the Department of Modern Languages and English Studies, University of Barcelona, and Life Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. In recognition of my research, the Spanish research agency CNEAI has granted me five six-year research periods (from 1989 to 2019).
I hold a BA in English Literature (University of Barcelona), an MSc in English Language and Literary Stylistics (University of Edinburgh) and a PhD in English Literature (University of Barcelona). My PhD thesis studied the role of language in the plays of Harold Pinter. My research interests focus on contemporary British theatre, film adaptations of literary classics, Shakespeare and critical theory.
I have published widely in these areas, including the edited or coedited collections Books in Motion: Adaptation, Intertextuality, Authorship (Rodopi, 2005); British Theatre of the 1990s: Interviews with Directors, Playwrights, Critics and Academics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); Ethical Speculations in Contemporary British Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); Of Precariousness: Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-century British Drama and Theatre (De Gruyter, 2017); and World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices (Brill, 2020).
I was coinvestigator on 'British Theatre of the 1990s', a three-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (BFF2002-00257), and have been Principal Investigator on 'The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation in post-1990 British Theatre', a three-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2009-07598); 'Ethical Issues in Contemporary British Theatre since 1989: Globalization, Theatricality, Spectatorship', a three-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2012-31842); and 'British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community', a four-year research project funded by four-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund (FFI2016-75443). I was also co-Principal Investigator, with Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg), on 'Representations of the Precarious in Contemporary British Theatre', a one-year (2014) research project funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD; Projekt-ID 57049392).
I coordinate the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group, recognised by the Catalan research agency AGAUR (2014 SGR 49 and 2017 SGR 40). The group forms part of the Research Network 'Anglophone Literatures in the Twenty-First Century: Narrative and Performative Spaces' (RED2018-102678-T, 2020-2021), with Isabel Carrera Suárez (University of Oviedo) as Principal Investigator. For further details, please see http://www.ub.edu/cbtbarcelona/.
