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Mireia Aragay is Professor of British Theatre in the English Literature Section of the Department Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies, University of Barcelona, and Life Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
She holds a BA in English Literature (University of Barcelona), an MSc in English Language and Literary Stylistics (University of Edinburgh) and a PhD in English Literature (University of Barcelona). Her PhD thesis studied the role of language in the plays of Harold Pinter. Her research interests focus on Harold Pinter and contemporary British theatre, film adaptations of literary classics, Shakespeare and critical theory.
Her publications in these areas include Books in Motion: Adaptation, Intertextuality, Authorship (editor; Rodopi, 2005), British Theatre of the 1990s: Interviews with Directors, Playwrights, Critics and Academics (co-editor; Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Ethical Speculations in Contemporary British Theatre (co-editor; Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), “Theatre and Spectatorship”, a monograph issue of the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (co-editor, 2016) and Of Precariousness: Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-century British Drama and Theatre (co-editor; De Gruyter, 2017). For further information on her publications, please see http://www.ub.edu/cbtbarcelona/people/mireia-aragay/.
She was a member of “British Theatre of the 1990s”, a three-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (BFF2002-00257), Principal Investigator of “The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation in post-1990 British Theatre”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2009-07598), and “Ethical Issues in Contemporary British Theatre since 1989: Globalization, Theatricality, Spectatorship” (FFI2012-31842), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, as well as co-Principal Investigator, with Martin Middeke, of “Representations of the Precarious in Contemporary British Drama and Theatre”, a one-year (2014) research project funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD; Projekt-ID 57049392). She is now Principal Investigator of “British Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Affect, Community”, a four-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and by FEDER (European Union) (FFI2016-75443). She is also Principal Investigator of the CBTBarcelona research group recognized by the Catalan research agency AGAUR (2014 SGR 49; 2017 SGR 40). For further details, please see http://www.ub.edu/cbtbarcelona/.
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