Lingua Franca Speakers Series

Alfredo Michel Modenessi is Professor of Drama, Theatre, and Translation at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently Visiting Scholar at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of Arizona State University (ASU).

He is the author of "Itself but by reflection": Shakespeare y el arte inestable (Shakespeare and Unstable Art, 2018) and El teatro norteamericano: una sintesis (American Drama: a Synthesis, 2014). He is currently writing a book on Shakespeare and Mexican cinema for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (AMCRS) at Arizona State University. He spent a sabbatical (2013-2014) in Stratford-upon-Avon, invited by the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, starting his research for his current book project, as well as chapters for the Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare Tragedy (2016) and the Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare in Performance (2017).

For more information, contact Dra. Marta Albalá-Pelegrín (martaa@cpp.edu). This event is open to the public and will take place in Spanish and English.