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Ana Sánchez Acevedo holds a PhD from the University of Seville, where she teaches contemporary literature, creative writing, and theatre history, as part of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Literature. The main focus of her current research concerns the links between theatricality, corporeality, ethics, and politics in contemporary Iberian and Latin American theater. After earning her bachelor’s in Hispanic philology, she conducted doctoral research abroad, first at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, and later at the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne in France. Simultaneously, she strengthened her interdisciplinary background with master’s degrees in performing arts as well as library science and documentary heritage from universities in Spain. In 2015, she was awarded a five-year fellowship at the City University of New York, where she also obtained a master of philosophy in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino cultures.

She has published book chapters as well as articles that have appeared in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Primer acto, among others. Her most recent book project, Anatomical Theaters: Contemporary Vanitas and Dramaturgies of Crisis, explores sensibilities, temporalities, and corporeality of crisis in Peninsular and Latin American theatrical works. Since 2020, in addition to her research and teaching, she has been developing her own theatrical projects with the company Teatro Anatómico, based in Seville.