Noelia Hernando-Real is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). She received her Ph. D. in British and North-American Literature from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she held a FPU grant for four years. Her research interests focus on contemporary North-American women playwrights. Noelia Hernando-Real has given papers at major national and international conferences, such as SSAWW, SAAS, ALA and ATDS, on the works of contemporary American women playwrights. She’s participated in several Research Projects: “The Discourse and the Representation of Space as a Determining Factor, Transforming and Creating Body and Gender Identities, in Anglo-American and Canadian Literature and Theatre, from the End of the 20th Century to the Present” (FFYH 2009- 12221), “Asociación de Estudios Históricos sobre la Mujer” (HUM302, Junta de Andalucía), “Refiguring the Body: Reinventions of Transnational Identities in Contemporary British, North American and Canadian Theatre and Fiction” (HUM 2004- 00515) (2004- 2007), and “Voices and Images of the New Millenium: Multiculturalism and Gender Representations in Contemporary Anglo-American and Canadian Literature” (PB98-0101). At the moment, Noelia Hernando Real is member of the Research Project “Gender and Pathography from a Transatlantic Perspective / Género y patografía desde una perspectiva transnacional” (Ref. PID2020-113330GB-I00), based at the UCM. Noelia Hernando Real has served as President of the
International Susan Glaspell Society (2015-2021) and is now a member of its Executive
Council.
drama, theatre, US literature
Líneas de investigaciónAnglo-American theatre and drama, contemporary US women playwrigths,modernist drama, gender violence, Gender Studies
Medical Humanities
Proyectos de investigación
“Gender and Pathography from a Transnational Perspective" (PI: Prof. Isabel Durán, UCM) , funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for three years (2021-2024). Reference: PID2020-113330-GBI00.
Summary
The “Medical Humanities” is an interdisciplinary area of knowledge which explores human health and disease through the methods and materials of the creative arts and humanities. It responds to the imperative of understanding the experience of “being ill” through a wide spectrum of physical and mental maladies, as reflected in literature and other artistic expressions. The research group “Gender Studies in English-Speaking Countries” at UCM envisions to employ its consolidated expertise in the fields of gender, transnational and literary studies to explore stories of illness as (auto)pathographies, which complement a patient’s medical history, protest against injustices from the medical profession and global health systems and strengthen the healing purpose inherent in the act of writing, as “scriptotherapy”. To facilitate the investigation of (auto) pathographies in conjunction with gender and transnationality, this Research Project and its members are divided into four clusters: stories of bodily conditions, stories of psychic suffering, stories of sex- and sexuality-related occurrences, and stories of treatment and illness-related spaces.
This research group’s case studies include but are not limited to examining illness stories of restitution, chaos, quest and patients’ confrontation with death, as well as illness-related myths and metaphors, such as rebirth, battle, the amazon, or medical colonialization. This project’s overarching goal is to scrutinize key questions, themes and narrative strategies from the four axes of the already-mentioned clusters (the physical, the mental, the sexual and the spatial), in order to have diagnostic knowledge of several life episodes: being physically or mentally ill, interacting with healthcare professionals, being treated in hospitals and other health institutions, and being traditionally stigmatized for gendered pathologies.
First semester: Del Medievo al Renacimiento en Literatura inglesa.
- Géneros de la literatura: Lenguajes dramáticos (Teatro contemporáneo anglo-norteamericano).
Second semester:
- 20th and 21st - Century Literary Theories. Theatre, Representation, Politics: Contemporary American Women Playwrights.
- Literatura y cultura de la primera lengua 4 (Inglés)- Postmodernidad
Noelia Hernando-Real has published over 50 book chapters, articles and reviews,
which have appeared in prestigious and peer-reviewed journals such as the Eugene
O’Neill Review, the New England Theatre Journal, Theatre Annual, Revue francais
d'etudes nordamericans, Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos or Critical Stages,
among others, and in publishing houses such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford
University Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer or Peter Lang. She has
authored Self and Space in the Theater of Susan Glaspell (McFarland, 2011), Voces
contra la mediocridad: la vanguardia teatral de los Provincetown Players, 1915-
1922 (Voices against Mediocrity: The Avant-garde Theatre of the Provincetown Players,
1915-1922) (Publicaciones Universidad de Valencia, 2014) and Rosas en la arena. Los
relatos de Susan Glaspell (Publicaciones Universidad de Valencia, 2022). She has
coedited several volumes: Performing Gender Violence. Plays by Contemporary
American Women Dramatists, with Barbara Ozieblo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), a
special issue of the feminist Spanish journal Asparkía devoted exclusively to North
American women playwrights (2012), the special issue of the Complutense Journal of
English Studies “Staging the Sounds of a Nation”, and the bilingual
collections Topografías domésticas/Negotiating Gendered Spaces (Fundamentos,
2013), and Estudios de Género: Visiones Transatlánticas /Gender Studies: Transatlantic
Visions (Fundamentos, 2016), together with Isabel Durán et al.
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