Ana Fernández-Caparrós

She holds a PhD from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2011) 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 Atlantis, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE), Studies in Theatre and Performance, Contemporary Theatre Review, 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, together with Anna M. Brígido a two-part monographic issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination: “21st-Century American Crises: Reflections, Representations, Transformations” (Vol. 50.1, 2017). 

Her recent research investigates the representation of twenty-first-century global crises in contemporary drama, focusing on the performative negotiation of precariousness and the emergence of strategies and poetics of relational resilience and intimate resistance. She is currently editing with Julie Vatain-Corfdir a Special Issue of the Revue française d’études américaines (2026, vol 4.) on the performance of resilience in the 21st-century United States. She has been guest researcher in several foreign institutions such as City University of New York (CUNY) (2007, 2017), Georgia State University (2012), University of Zurich (2015) and Basel University (2019). From July to October 2026 she will be a Research Fellow at the University of Verona.

CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS:

• Fernández-Caparrós, Ana. “Expanding the Borders of the Twenty-first-century US Theatrical Landscape: Quiara Alegría Hudes and Erin McKeown’s Hosting of Intimate Resistance in Miss You Like Hell.” Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, Vol. XXXVII, 2025, pp. 61-75.  ISSN 1697-7750 · E-ISSN 2340-4981 DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/clr.8101

• Fernández-Caparrós, Ana. “On Finding the Story and Opening Doors: An Interview with Lolita Chakrabarti.” Contemporary Theatre Review Vol. 35, no.1, 2025, pp.61–72. doi:10.1080/10486801.2025.2486944.

• Fernández-Caparrós, Ana. “Drawing New Circles: On Paula Vogel’s Maieutics, Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Broken Language and the Seeds of Boricuan Inspiration”. Jones, Lee Brewer, The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice, Pedagogy and Influences. Bloomsbury, Methuen Drama, 2023, pp. 140-154. ISBN: 9781350251724.