Albert Méndez Panadés holds a PhD in contemporary British Theatre (University of Barcelona, 2023), an MA in Theatre Studies with a major in History and Theory of the Performing Arts (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona Theatre Institute, 2017) and a BA in Literary Studies (University of Barcelona, 2016).
Albert’s PhD thesis, entitled “Neoliberalism, Class, Subjectivity: A Sociological Perspective on Post-Recession British Theatre” (2023), was supervised by Clara Escoda and tutored by Mireia Aragay. His MA dissertation, which was supervised by Sara Alegre i Martín (Autonomous University of Barcelona), read Martin Crimp’s In the Republic of Happiness through the notions of narcissistic individualism and the collapse of socialization explored by Gilles Lipovestky. He was Visiting Research Student at the School of Culture & Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow (2021).
With the research group “Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona”, he is currently carrying out the research project “Gender, Affect and Care in Twenty-First Century British Theatre,” (FFI2016-75443-P) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Albert was a co-investigator for “British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community”, a four-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and the EU European Regional Development Fund (FFI2016-75443).
In 2015, he completed an internship at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, where he translated the play Strangers, Babies by Linda McLean into Catalan for the Reading Committee. Albert also translated David Greig’s Fragile into Catalan for an amateur production (Igualada, 2019).
Contemporary British Theatre
2017: “In The Republic of Happiness, o, la Hipertròfia del Jo: una Paròdia del Narcissisme en la Societat Tardo-Capitalista, segons Martin Crimp”. RECERCAT: Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/186515
Contemporary British Theatre
2021: “Recognition, Redistribution and the Politics of Spectatorship in Mouthpiece (2018), by Kieran Hurley”, paper presented at the New Scholars’ Forum of “Theatre Ecologies: Environment, Sustainability and Politics”, International Federation for Theatre Research Conference (IFTR), National University of Ireland, Galway, 12-16 July [originally scheduled for 2020, postponed due to COVID-19; online].
2019: “The Subject in Conflict: A Philosophical Approach to Contemporary British Theatre after the 2008 Financial Crisis”, paper presented at the New Scholars’ Forum of “Theatre of Crisis: Aesthetic Responses to a Cross-Sectional Condition”, 28th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Graz, 20-23 June.
Contemporary British Theatre
2023: participation in the study day on care in/and twenty-first century British theatre within the project “Gender, Affect and Care in Twenty-First Century British Theatre”, organized by the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, 24 February.
2019: with Maria Isern, co-organizer of the 7th Taller de Tesis (Thesis Workshop), PhD Programme “Construcció i Representació d’Identitats Culturals”, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, 2 December.
2019: attendance at the research seminar “The Drama of Ideas: Beckett and the Question of Philosophy” given by Martin Puchner (U. Harvard), co-organized by Grup de Recerca en Estudis Literaris Globals (GlobaLS), U. Oberta de Catalunya, and Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, 5 April.
2018: “The Subject in Conflict: A Philosophical Approach to Twenty-First Century British Theatre”, paper presented at the 6th Taller de Tesis (Thesis Workshop), PhD Programme “Construcció i Representació d’Identitats Culturals”, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, 3 December.
2018: attendance at the 6th Taller de Tesis (Thesis Workshop), PhD Programme “Construcció i Representació d’Identitats Culturals”, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, 3 December.
2018: participation in the study day on crisis within the project “British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community”, organized by the Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona research group, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia, 12 April.
2016: “Sarah Kane, de la constitució a la dissolució de la subjectivitat”, guest lecture for the undergraduate course “Teatre: text i espectacle”, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia, 12 May.
2016: “Cos, text i violència”, guest lecture for the undergraduate course “Teatre: text i espectacle”, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Filologia, 12 May.