Isabel Seguro

   

 

  Isabel Seguro   MARÍA ISABEL SEGURO is Lecturer in the English Literature Section of the Department of English and German, University of Barcelona. She holds a BA in Social Sciences (International Christian University, Mitaka, Tokyo) and in English (University of Barcelona), and an MA in English (University of Barcelona). She has carried out research on Asian American literature, focusing specifically on theatre. She has published pieces on Lillian Hellman, David Henry Hwang, Wakako Yamauchi, Mitsuye Yamada, Joy Kogawa and Philip Kan Gotanda, amongst others.

Her minor thesis focused on Caryl Churchill’s play Cloud Nine (1979), paying particular attention to the intersection of postmodern, postcolonial and gender discourses. She is currently researching her PhD thesis on Martin McDonagh, supervised by Mireia Aragay. 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).

 

 

 

 

 

 
   

 

        

     
    8/10/2015