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Ana Fernández-Caparrós is associate professor of English and American Literature at the University of Valencia and a member of the Research Groups "North-American Ethnic Literatures" and “Literature, Arts and Performance” based in that institution. She holds a PhD from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and her main field of research is contemporary American drama, on which she has spoken widely in academic contexts and published in journals such as Studies in Theatre and Performance, Contemporary Theatre Review, Atlantis, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE), South Atlantic Review and others. She is the author of the book El teatro de Sam Shepard en el Nueva York de los sesenta (PUV 2015); the co-editor of the collection of essays Poéticas por venir, políticas del duelo (Verbum 2014), and with N. Hernando-Real and F. Vericat of the Special Issue of Complutense Journal of English Studies “Staging the Sounds of a Nation: The Poetic Soundscapes of the USA” (2015). In 2017 she edited the first of a two-part monographic issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination: “21^st-Century American Crises: Reflections, Representations, Transformations” (Vol. 50.1, 2017). As an outcome of her recent research on 21st-century US drama she has recently contributed a chapter on the theatre of Sarah Ruhl to the volume American Dramaturgies for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Julie Vatain-Cordfir (Presses Université de Sorbonne, 2021) and an article in the volume Staging 21st Century Tragedies. Theatre, Politics and Global Crisis, edited by Avra Sidiroloupou (Routledge, 2022).