Hernando Real Noelia

Noelia Hernando-Real, Ph. D.  is Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). She received her Ph. D. in British and North-American Literature from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she held a FPU grant for four years. Her research interests focus on contemporary North-American women playwrights. Noelia Hernando-Real has given paper at major national and international conferences, such as SSAWW and ATDS, on the works of contemporary American women playwrights. She’s participated in several Research Projects: “The Discourse and the Representation of Space as a Determining Factor, Transforming and Creating Body and Gender Identities, in Anglo-American and Canadian Literature and Theatre, from the End of the 20th Century to the Present” (FFYH 2009- 12221), “Asociación de Estudios Históricos sobre la Mujer” (HUM302, Junta de Andalucía), “Refiguring the Body: Reinventions of Transnational Identities in Contemporary British, North American and Canadian Theatre and Fiction” (HUM 2004- 00515) (2004- 2007), and “Voices and Images of the New Millenium: Multiculturalism and Gender Representations in Contamporary Anglo-American and Canadian Literature” (PB98-0101) (1999- 2002). Noelia Hernando-Real is Vice President of the Susan Glaspell Society.

Recent publications include:

The Geography of Susan Glaspell’s Plays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. Forthcoming.

 “Drama and Cultural Pluralism in the America of Susan Glaspell’s Inheritors.” Interrogating America Through Theatre and Performance. Ed. William Demastes and Iris Smith Fischer.London andNew York: Palgrave MacMillan. 2007. 65- 80.

 “E PluribusPlurum: From a Unifying National Identity to Plural Identities in Susan Glaspell’s Inheritors.” Codifying the National Self: Spectators, Actors and the American Dramatic Text. Eds. Barbara Ozieblo and Lola Narbona. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2006. 177-92.

 “Cultural Memory in El Séptimo Cielo: An Intercultural Staging of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine.” Performing Global Feminisms. Eds. Sue-Ellen Case and Elaine Aston.London andNew York:  Palgrave MacMillan. November 2007.

“Sane Enough to Kill: On Women, Madness and the Theatricality of Violence in Susan Glaspell’s The Verge”. Violence in American Theatre and Drama. Eds. Alfonso Ceballos, Ramón Espejo y Bernardo Muñoz.Jefferson,NC: McFarland, 2011 Forthcoming.

“On Closets and Graves: Intertexualities in Susan Glaspell’s Alison’s House and  Emily Dickinson’s Poetry.” Intertextual Exchanges. Eds. Brenda Murphy and Drew Eisenhauer.Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2011. Forthcoming.

“Female Charioteers in Susan Glaspell’s Plays: Re-visiting the Spirit of Delphi and Aristotle’s Poetics in Inheritors, The Verge and The Comic Artist”. Richard Stockton Papers on Hellenic Studies I: America and the Experience of Delphi. Ed. David Roessel.Boston: Somerset Hall Press, 2011. Forthcoming.