


(forthcoming): co-editor with Clare Wallace, Clara Escoda and Enric Monforte, Crisis, Representation and Resilience: Perspectives on Contemporary British Theatre.

From 2013 to 2015 he translated British playwrights’ work into Spanish for the “Theatre Uncut” project led by Emma Callender and Hannah Price. He also participated in “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). He was a co-investigator for “Estudios sobre intermedialidad como mediación intercultural”, a three-year research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2008-05388), “Ethical Issues in Contemporary British Theatre since 1989: Globalization, Theatricality, Spectatorship”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2012-31842), and “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). He is the founder and editor in chief of Culture, Language and Representation, a cultural studies journal published by Universitat Jaume I, and was general editor from 2004 to 2016. He is author of Revisiones críticas del teatro alternativo británico contemporáneo 1968-1990 (Universitat Jaume I, 2000) and co-editor of Tendencias actuales en los Estudios Filológicos Anglo-Norteamericanos (Universitat Jaume I, 2003) and New Literatures of Old: Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literature (Cambridge Scholars, 2008) and World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices (Brill, 2020). His research interests include popular culture and literature, film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays and British contemporary metafiction. He specializes in British contemporary theatre with an emphasis on post-war political drama. His PhD thesis explores the political focus in Caryl Churchill’s works. José Ramón holds a BA in English (University of Oviedo) and a PhD in English Literature (University of Oviedo). José Ramón Prado-Pérez is Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of English Studies, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló.
