Verónica Rodríguez (https://personal.ua.es/veronica.rodriguezm/) is Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of English Studies at the University of Alicante. 

She has taught, among others, at the University of Barcelona, Canterbury Christ Church University, Royal Holloway, University of Reading, Buckinghamshire New University and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. 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 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 theatre, feminisms, the medical and health humanities and disability studies, with a current focus on the intersection of contemporary theatre and performance practices, gender and health.

In 2022, she co-organised with Leah Sidi at UCL, the Conference “Material Selves: Gender, Health and Performance” and in 2024, she co-organised with Remedios Perni at the UA, the International Conference “IX CIJIET / II Teatrales”.

She is International Associate of UCL Health Humanities Centre and member of the Editorial Board of Medical Humanities. 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, and serves as adjunt editor at the journal Feminismo/s.

With the research group “Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona”, she carried 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 (http://www.ub.edu/cbtbarcelona). At present, she is member of the project, “Shakespeare, Arts and Activism in the 21st Century” (PID2022-137873NA-i00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (https://shakeart21.com/).

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 and has served as reviewer for publishing houses (Manchester University Press) and journals (Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, among others). 

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

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 (UCL, 2022). Her poetry has been published in Stained: An Anthology of Writing about Menstruation (2023). She is also a Certified Women’s Health Coach (The Integrative Women’s Health Institute, USA).