Clara
Calvo Lopez

Clara Calvo is Professor of English Studies at the University of Murcia (Spain). Her research interests include the afterlives of Shakespeare and Jane Austen, literary adaptation and cultural memory. She is the author of Power Relations and Fool-Master Discourse in Shakespeare (1991) and has co-authored, with Jean-Jacques Weber, The Literature Workbook (Routledge,1998). With Ton Hoenselaars, she has edited European Shakespeares (The Shakespearean International Yearbook, 8, 2008) and a special issue of Critical Survey on Shakespeare and the Cultures of Commemoration (2011). She has also edited The Spanish Tragedy for the Arden Early Modern Series with Jesús Tronch (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2015) with Coppélia Kahn. She has also published articles and reviews in Shakespeare (BSA Journal), Shakespeare Survey (CUP) and Shakespeare Quarterly (Folger Shakespeare Library and has collaborated with The Year’s Work in English Studies (The English Association). She is a member of the editorial committees of Atlantis and Sederi and associate editor of Cahiers Élisabéthains. In 2013, she was Short Term Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC). Between 2010 and 2018, she was President of SEDERI (Spanish and Portuguese Association for English Renaissance Studies). She has also been a board member of ESRA (European Shakespeare Research Association) and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of ISA (International Shakespeare Association). As Principal Investigator, she has promoted research with several funded projects on Shakespeare and the Great War, Shakespeare and Commemoration, Shakespeare and the 20th century and Shakespearean biography.