Author: Catherine O Leary

Catherine O”Leary is Lecturer in Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Her main research interests are twentieth-century Spanish theatre, censorship, and memory and exile. Her recent publications on censorship include The Theatre of Antonio Buero Vallejo: Ideology, Politics and Censorship (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2005), “The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht in Francoist Spain”, in Nuevas aportaciones a los estudios teatrales (del siglo de Oro a nuestros días), ed. Hector Brioso-José V. Saval. (2007) and “”Irrepresentable en España”: Fernando Arrabal and the Spanish Censors”, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (JILAR; January 2009). She is currently working with Michael Thompson (University of Durham) on the AHRC-funded project, Theatre Censorship in Spain: 1931-1985 (dur.ac.uk/mlac/tcs/).Alberto Lázaro is Professor of English Literature at the University of Alcalá in Madrid, Spain, where he has been teaching English literature since 1987. He has done extensive research on contemporary British and Irish fiction, devoting particular attention to critical reception and censorship. He edited The Road from George Orwell: His Achievement and Legacy (2001) and published James Joyce in Spain: A Critical Bibliography, 1972–2002 (co-authored with Antonio Raúl de Toro, 2002), H. G. Wells en España (2004), and El modernismo en la novela inglesa (2005). He is also the author of essays on Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and H. G. Wells in three volumes of “The Reception of British Authors in Europe” series.