Last Name: ESCODA AGUSTI Name: CLARA ACADEMIC TRAINING Degrees Center Date PhD Thesis Universitat de Barcelona 28/11/2011 Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) Universitat de Barcelona 04/07/2006 MASTER in Humanities Hood College (Maryland, USA) 15/05/2004 English Studies Universitat de Barcelona 01/01/2002 RESEARCH PROJECTS Title: The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation in Post-1990 British Drama and Theatre. Programme: Plan Nacional, Filología y Filosofía (FILO y FISO) Financing organism: MICNN - Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Participating institutions: Universitat de Barcelona, Universidad de Málaga Code: FFI2009-07598 Principal researcher: Mireia Aragay Title: Ethical Issues in Contemporary British Theatre Since 1989: Globalization, Theatricality and Spectatorship Programme: Plan Nacional, Filología y Filosofía (FILO y FISO) Financing organism: MINECO - Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad Participating institutions: Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Jaume I, Manchester Metropolitan University, Universitat d Augsburg (Alemanya), Rose Bruford College (Regne Unit). Code: FFI2012-31842 Principal researcher: Mireia Aragay This project has been extended by MINECO until 31 July 2016. Title: Representations of Precariousness in Contemporary British Theatre Financing organism: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Participating institutions: Universitat d Augsburg, Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Jaume I, Manchester Metropolitan University i Universitat de Sevilla. Code: Projekt-ID 57049392 Duration: 01/01/2014-31/12/2014 Principal researchers: Mireia Aragay i Martin Middeke 1
RESEARCH GROUPS Title: Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona (CBTBarcelona) Programme: SGRC - Ajuts de Suport als Grups de Recerca de Catalunya (SGR) Financing organisms: AGAUR - Agència de Gestió d'ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca, Generalitat de Catalunya. Participating institutions: Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Jaume I, Manchester Metropolitan University (Regne Unit), Universitat d Augsburg (Alemanya), Rose Bruford College (Regne Unit). Code: 2014 SGR 49 Duration: 2014-2016 (3 years) Principal researcher: Mireia Aragay BOOKS PUBLICATIONS Títle: Martin Crimp s Theatre: Collapse as Resistance to Late Capitalism Place of Publication: Berlin and Boston Publishing House: De Gruyter Pages: 332pp. Year: 2013 ISBN: 978-3-11-030995-9 BOOK CHAPTERS Title: (Forthcoming) Ethics, Precariousness and the Inclination towards the Other in debbie tucker green s dirty butterfly (2003), Laura Wade s Posh (2010) and Martin Crimp s In the Republic of Happiness (2012). Book: Representations of the Precarious in Contemporary British Drama Editors: Mireia Aragay i Martin Middeke Place of Publication: Berlin and Boston Editorial: De Gruyter Year: 2015 Title: Violence, Testimony and Ethics in Martin Crimp s The Country (2000) and The City (2008) Book: Ethical Speculations in Contemporary British Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan) Editors: Mireia Aragay i Enric Monforte Place of Publication: Basingstoke i New York Publishing House: Palgrave Macmillan Pages: 25-41 2
Year: 2014 ISBN: 978-1-137-29756-3 Title: head green water to sing:' Minimalism and Indeterminacy in Martin Crimp's Attempts on her Life (1997) Book: Drama and/after Postmodernism Editors: Christoph Henke and Martin Middeke Place of Publication: Trier Publishing House: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier Pages: 149-163 Year: 2007 ISBN: 978-3-88476-936-2 RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Authors: Aragay, Mireia, Clara Escoda i Enric Monforte Title: Martin Crimp at Sala Beckett, Barcelona Journal: Contemporary Theatre Review Volume: 24 Number: 3 Pages: 376-387 Year: 2014 Place of Publication: United Kingdom. ISSN: 1048-6801 (Print), 1477-2264 (Online). Authors: Aragay Sastre, Mireia and Escoda Agustí, Clara. Title: Postdramatism, Ethics and the Role of Light in Martin Crimp's/James Macdonald's Fewer Emergencies (2005) Journal: New Theatre Quarterly Volume: 28 Number: 2 Pages: 133-142 Year: 2012 Place of Publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom. ISSN: 0266-464X Title: Bibliographical entry on Attempts on her Life (1997), by Martin Crimp Journal: The Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com) Volume: Online Number: Online Pages: Online Year: 2009 Place of Publication: University of East Anglia, Norwich (United Kingdom) ISSN: 1747-678X Website: http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&uid=23259. Títol: A Textual Analysis of Martin Crimp's Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull: The Importance of Testimony and Relationship Journal: Platform: Postgraduate Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts Volume: 10 Number: 1 Pages: 54-70 Year: 2010 Place of Publication: London (United Kingdom) ISSN: 1751-0171 3
Title: Short Circuits of Desire: Language and Power in Martin Crimp's Attempts on her Life (1997) Journal: Ariel: A Review of International English Literature Volume: 36 Number: 3-4 Pages: 103-126 Year: 2007 Place of Publication: Alberta (Canada) ISSN: 0004-1327 REVIEWS Title: Review of Baroque Allegory Comedia: The transfiguration of Tragedy in Seventeenth-Century Spain, by Sofie Kluge. Journal: Anagnórisis: Revista de investigación teatral Number or authors: 1 Volume: 6 Pages: 134-140 Year: 2012 Place of publication: Barcelona (Spain) ISSN: 2013-6986 Title: Review of Hamlet y el actor: en busca del personaje, by Dennis Rafter. Journal: Anagnórisis: Revista de investigación teatral Volume: 5 Pages: 134-141 Year: 2012 Place of publication: Barcelona (Spain) ISSN: 2013-6986 Title: Review of Theatre and Feeling by Erin Hurley. Journal: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts: Platform Volume: 6 Number: 1 Pages: 115-120 Year: 2011 Place of publication: London, Egham (Surrey) (United Kingdom) ISSN: 1751-0171 PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES Title: Participatory Theatre Practices: Possibilities and Limitations. Participation: Chair (Coordinadora) Conference: Congrés internacional 2th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE): Theatre and Spectatorship. Place: Barcelona Year: 2015 Organizing institution: Research group to which I belong, Ethical Issues in Contemporary British Theatre Since 1989: Globalization, Theatricality and Spectatorship (FFI2012-31842). Title: Ethics, Precariousness, and the Inclination Towards the Other in debbie tucker green s dirty butterfly (2003) Laura Wade s Posh (2010) and Martin Crimp s In the Republic of Happiness (2013). Conference: IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) 4
Place: Warwick (United Kingdom) Year: 2014 Organizing institution: Warwick University Títle: Witnessing, Spectatorship and Ethics in Martin Crimp s The Country (2000) Conference: The Viewing of Politics and the Politics of Viewing: Theatre Challenges in the Age of Globalized Communities Place: Thessaloniki (Greece) Year: 2013 Organizing institution: University of Thessaloniki Authors: Mireia Aragay Sastre, Clara Escoda Agustí, Enric Monforte Rabascall Títle: Crimp at Sala Beckett Conference: Dealing with Martin Crimp Place: London (United Kingdom) Year: 2013 Organizing institution: Royal Holloway (University of London) i Birmingham University Title: Empire, Resistance and the Creation of Borderlands in Moira Buffini s Welcome to Thebes (2010) Conference: The Border, an Unavoidable Concept? International Conference on the Border and its Relationship to the Performing Arts in Europe Place: Barcelona Year: 2012 Organizing institution: GRAE-Grup de Recerca en Arts Escèniques (2009 SGR 1034) Títle: Re-Writing the Classics: World and Gender Inequality in Moira Buffini s Welcome to Thebes and Martin Crimp s Cruel and Tender. Participation in the Round Table: The Politics of Rereading/Rewriting in Contemporary British Theatre (Chair: Hildegard Klein (U.Málaga), Participants: Clara Escoda (U. Barcelona), Isabel Seguro Gómez (U. Barcelona) and Verónica Rodriguez (U.Múrcia)). Conference: XXXV AEDEAN International Conference Place: Barcelona Year: 2011 Organizing institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Títle: Attempts on her Life (1997) and Face to the Wall (2002): Postdramatism, the 'Society of Spectacle', and Crimp's Vignettes of Collapse Conference: Contemporary British Theatre: Towards a New Canon Place: Birmingham (United Kingdom) Any: 2010 Organizing institution: Birmingham City University. Títle 'In-Yer-Face Theatre and the 'Society of Spectacle': The Violence of Progress in Martin Crimp's The Treatment (1993) Conference: 8th International Conference 'Language, Literature and Cultural Policies: from Evolution to Involution'. Place: Augsburg (Alemanya) 5
Year: 2006 Organizing institution: University of Augsburg TALKS AND SEMINARS 28/11/2015: Guest Lecturer on Martin Crimp s play Attempts on her Life for the Master s class Literatura i Escena: Construcció d Identitats des del Royal Court Theatre taught by Dr.Enric Monforte. Organizing institution: Master s Programme Construcció i Representació d Identitats Culturals, University of Barcelona. 26/11/2014: Ethics, Precariousness and the Inclination towards the Other in debbie tucker green s dirty butterfly, Laura Wade s Posh and Martin Crimp s In the Republic of Happiness for the Master s course Literatura, ètica i globalització taught by Dr. Mireia Aragay. Organizing institution: Master s Programme Construcció i Representació d Identitats Culturals, University of Barcelona. 16/09/2014: Ethics, Precariousness and the Inclination towards the Other in debbie tucker green s dirty butterfly, Laura Wade s Posh and Martin Crimp s In the Republic of Happiness, at the research seminar Ethics, Precariousness and Contemporary (British) Theatre. Organizing institution: Research Project Ethical Issues in Contemporary British Theatre Since 1989: Globalization, Theatricality and Spectatorship (FFI2012-31842) to which I belong. 28/10/2013: Ethics, Precariousness and the Inclination towards the Other in debbie tucker green s dirty butterfly, Laura Wade s Posh and Martin Crimp s In the Republic of Happiness, at the research project Ethics, Precariousness and Contemporary (British) Theatre. Organizing institution: Research Project Ethical Issues in Contemporary British Theatre Since 1989: Globalization, Theatricality and Spectatorship (FFI2012-31842) to which I belong. 05/12/2012: Guest Lecturer on Martin Crimp s play Attempts on her Life for the Master s class Literatura i Escena: Construcció d Identitats des del Royal Court Theatre taught by Dr.Enric Monforte, which is part of the official Master s Construcció i Representació d Identitats Culturals. Organizing institution: Master s Programme Construcció i Representació d Identitats Culturals, University of Barcelona. 09/11/2011: Guest Lecturer on Martin Crimp s play Attempts on her Life for the Master s 6
class Literatura i Escena: Construcció d Identitats des del Royal Court Theatre taught by Dr.Enric Monforte. Organizing institution: Master s Programme Construcció i Representació d Identitats Culturals, University of Barcelona. GRANTS AND RESEARCH STAYS Grant: Beca Postdoctoral o Ajut per a la Contractació de Personal Investigador Postdoctoral de Formació en Docència i Recerca per a Departaments de la Universitat de Barcelona (Convocatòria 2014-2015). Centre: University of Barcelona Year: 2015 Grant: Beca per a Estades Fora de Catalunya (BE-GDR 2010) awarded by AGAUR. Centre: Royal Holloway (University of London), in the Drama and Theatre Department, under the supervision of Dr. Dan Rebellato. Year: 15/06/2010-15/09/2010 Grant: FPU Scholarship (Beca de Formación de Profesorado Universitario, AP-2004-0742) Centre: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC) Place: Universitat de Barcelona Duration: 18 mesos. Year: 2005-2006 Grant: Spanish Teaching Assistant (T.A) at Hood College. Centre: Hood College (Maryland (EEUU). Year: 20/08/2002-20/05/2004 7
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