Verónica Rodríguez is Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of English Studies at the University of Alicante (Spain). Verónica holds a PhD in contemporary British theatre (University of Barcelona), an MA in Comparative Literature (University of Murcia) and a BA in English Studies (University of Murcia).

She has taught at the University of Barcelona, Canterbury Christ Church University, Royal Holloway, University of London, University of Reading, Buckinghamshire New University, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London y Richmond University, the American International University in London. She also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, which led to the title “Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy” (AFHEA).

In 2019, her monograph David Greig’s Holed Theatre: Globalization, Ethics and the Spectator (a rewriting of her PhD thesis) was published by Palgrave Macmillan. The same year, she attended the “Mellon School of Theatre and Performance: Migrations” (Harvard University).

Her main research interests are in the fields of contemporary British playwriting, feminisms, the medical humanities and disability studies, with a current focus on the intersection of contemporary theatre and performance practices, gender and health. In 2022, she co-organized with Leah Sidi at University College London, University of London, the Conference “Material Selves: Gender, Health and Performance”.

She is a member of the University Institute of Gender Studies Research (IUIEG) and the research group “Transhistorical Anglophone Literary Studies” (ThALIS), both at UA. With the research group “Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona”, she carries out the research project “Gender, Affect and Care in Twenty-First Century British Theatre” (FFI2016-75443-P), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. See CBTBarcelona’s website: http://www.ub.edu/cbtbarcelona.

Verónica has published, for instance, with Routledge, Bloomsbury Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan and De Gruyter, and in journals such as Contemporary Theatre Review and Journal of Contemporary Drama in English. In her role as editor and reviewer, she has worked for Manchester University Press and collaborated with the Alicante Journal of English Studies (RAEI) and Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies.

She has been Visiting Research Fellow at University of Augsburg (Germany), University of Winchester (UK), Royal Holloway and Queen Mary (both University of London, UK) and Charles University (Czech Republic).

Verónica has theatre industry experience. She has written plays on women’s health such as Bi, directed by Lucy Morrison (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2019); has co-directed a play on menstruation titled Menstrual Care Charter (“Reading Assembly: Care”, University of Reading, 2021); and written and performed her monologue Performing Endometriosis, directed by Magdalena Mosteanu (Centre for Health Humanities and Institute for Advanced Studies, UCL, 2022). Her poetry has been published in Stained: An Anthology of Writing about Menstruation (2023). Verónica is also a Certified Women’s Health Coach (The Integrative Women’s Health Institute, USA), specialising on endometriosis.