Ignacio Ramos Gay

Ignacio Ramos-Gay is Full Professor in French Philology at the University of Valencia. He holds a degree in English Philology and another in French Philology, graduating with honors in both cases. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Translation Studies (French-Spanish) and a PhD in Philology (also with honors). He has been fellow of the French Embassy in Spain, as well as a Fulbright scholar, and has carried out postdoctoral research stays in Paris-Sorbonne, University of London-King’s College, Oxford, Harvard, and City University of New York. He specializes in the historiography of theatre, with a particular focus on the semiotic and ethical implications of having a live animal on the stage in the contemporary performing arts. He has published on the multiple aspects related to the nonhuman animal on the stage, on the transference of meaning between the dramatic text and the representation of the animal, and on the audience reception and response to their theatrical presence. He was the Principal Investigator of the National Research Project titled “Animal y espectáculo en el teatro francés actual (1976-2017): zooescenografía e industria del actor no humano”, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness from 2018 to 2021 (Reference: FFI2017-83475-P), and he has edited several special issues and volumes on the onstage construction of species otherness. Among these publications are the special issue Men, Masculinity and Animality (Men and Masculinities, 2020; co-edited with Claudia Alonso-Recarte), Real Animals on the Stage (Studies in Theatre & Performance, 2018; co-edited with Teresa Grant and Claudia Alonso-Recarte), Animal y espectáculo en el mundo hispano (Miríada Hispánica, 2017), and the collection of essays La ménagerie théâtrale: écrire, incarner, mettre en scène l’animal vivant au théâtre en France (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles), published by Classiques Garnier. In 2022 he was appointed Chevalier in the Order des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Education.

Email: Ignacio.Ramos@uv.es