Dr. Laura Monrós-Gaspar

• • • (BA in English; BA in Spanish) (MA, PhD in English) Full Professor in English. Honorary Research Associate at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), University of Oxford. In 2007 I was research associate at the APGRD under the supervision of Prof. Fiona Macintosh. At present I lead the Research Group Literature, Arts and Performance (LAP) at the Universitat de València.
    • Head of the Area of Theatre and Performing Arts at the UV (Aula d' arts escèniques UV) and programmer for Sala Matilde Salvador.
      

Research interests:

• • • The reception of classical mythology in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in Britain and in Postcolonial contexts.
      
    • Victorian burlesque theatre, with particular interests in cultural politics, in performance practices, and in gender.
      
    • The editing of Victorian burlesque.
      
    • British popular culture of the nineteenth century.
      
    • Women's writing in the nineteenth century.
      
    • Cross-cultural relations in the translation of Greek and Roman Drama into English and Spanish.
      
    • English Literature and Language Teaching Research: between 2011 and 2012 I was member of IULMA (Instituto Universitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas) at the Universitat de València, and ANGLOTIC, a teaching project focused on the creation of discipline-specific teaching materials and learning objects that take into account not only the need for students to learn/acquire content but also competences.