Irene García Asensi

Irene García Asensi holds a degree in English Studies from the Universitat de València. At the same institution she studied the Master's Degree in Creative and Humanistic Translation where she specialised in audiovisual translation. Currently, in addition to working as a freelance translator, she is a student of the PhD programme “Languages, Literatures, Cultures and their Applications” at the Universitat de València. Her research work revolves around the staging during the 20th century of William Shakespeare's famous quotation “Exit, pursued by a bear” in the tragicomedy The Winter's Tale. The aim is to focus on the options that London set designers and theatre directors considered when staging this play, as well as to study the different ways in which new technologies and new points of view would interpret the aforementioned stage direction. In order to do this, the dissertation takes into account the novelties available to directors in this century, which determine four modalities: the use of costumes, the use of puppets, the use of special effects and the use of real animals. For all these reasons, the research project could be framed both within Theatre Studies and Animal Studies. In addition, Irene has worked on the adaptation of plays to the film industry both in her final dissertation during her degree and in her Master’s final dissertation, thus giving shape to another part of her line of research.

Email: igara7@alumni.uv.es