Members

Clara Escoda

Clara Escoda is Lecturer in the English Literature Section of the Department of English and German, University of Barcelona. She graduated in 2002 from the University of Barcelona with a major in English Studies, and in 2004 she completed an MA in the Humanities in Hood College (Maryland, USA), with a concentration on African American literature. Her minor thesis focused on the work of Toni Morrison and Gayl Jones. She has completed her PhD thesis on the plays of Martin Crimp, supervised by Mireia Aragay. She has published articles on African American literature, on theatre and performance, and on Martin Crimp’s plays. She is a member of “The representation of politics and the politics of representation in post-1990 British drama and theatre”, a three-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2009-07598) and of "Ethical issues in contemporary British theatre since 1989: globalization, theatricality, spectatorship", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2012-31842).

Elisabeth Massana

PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona, when not multitasking to make ends meet she attempts to write her work in progress thesis: The Performance of Terror in post 9/11 British Theatre. Bookseller, translator, and teacher, she has worked as an associate professor teaching British Contemporary Theatre in the University of Barcelona and is currently a tutor for History of the Anglosaxon Countries and Irish Literature at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Together with Joan Flores she coordinated the theatre reading series “Gabinet de Lectura de Textos Teatrals” in La Central Bookshop, and she is one of the founding members of El Tangram Editorial, a publishing house on a forced sabbatical specialised on critical thought, gender studies and political theory. She has published interviews with gender activists Itziar Ziga and Del Lagrace Volcano, and with playwrights Simon Stephens and Fréderic Sonntag, and writes occasional theatre reviews for Núvol Research interests include contemporary British drama, gender studies, the intersections between queer theory and activism, performance studies and contemporary philosophy. She loves cheddar cheese, Barry’s tea and chocolate, and is on a constant fight against procrastination.  

Verónica Rodríguez

Verónica Rodríguez is a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona and research assistant for “The representation of politics and the politics of representation in post-1990 British drama and theatre”, a three-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI 2009-075981FILO). She graduated from the University of Murcia with a major in English Studies and in 2011 she completed an MA in Comparative Literature (University of Murcia). Her minor thesis focused on a comparison of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the first of David Greig’s plays, A Savage Reminiscence or How to Snare the Nimble Marmoset. She is currently writing-up her PhD thesis, which focuses on Greig’s plays and globalization and is supervised by Dr. Mireia Aragay. She has published about the intervention of the sensible, ambivalence and about Greig’s Brechtian influence. She has spoken about mediated/mediatized spectators, airplane villages, PowerPoint and walking in Greig’s work. She is a member of "Ethical issues in contemporary British theatre since 1989: globalization, theatricality, spectatorship", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2012-31842). She is co-founder and member of TTTB (Theatre Theory and Therapy Barcelona). Therapy is her favourite ‘T’. 

Marta Tirado

Marta Tirado Mauri is a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona, member and research assistant for "Ethical issues in contemporary British theatre since 1989: globalization, theatricality, spectatorship", a three-year research funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2012-31842). She also holds a BA with a major in Humanities (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), a BA in Drama and Performing Arts (Escola Superior d’Art Dramàtic de l’Institut del Teatre de Barcelona) and a MA in Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts and Thought (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Her minor thesis focused on a poetics comparison of Sarah Kane’s Crave and the Catalan author Lluïsa Cunillé’s Apocalipsi, supervised by Dr. Carles Besa (UPF). She is currently working on her PhD thesis, which analyses the gradual transformation of the ethical subjectivity in the plays of Kane from an aesthetic perspective and is supervised by Dr. Mireia Aragay. These last years she has been an Associate Lecture in the Department of Humanities at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in the Department of Catalan at Universitat de Barcelona as well as in the Department of Dramatic Theory at Escola Superior d’Art Dramàtic de l’Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. She has combined her research with the stage direction in performances like Macbeth, by Shakespeare (2009), Mil cotxes plens de sang (2008) and Guia ràpida Kendall de seguretat, by Carles Mallol (2007), Glen Garry Glen Ross, by David Mamet (2007), I can’t imagine tomorrow, by Tenesee Williams (2006) and Medea, by Heiner Müller.