NÚRIA CASADO-GUAL

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Dr. Núria Casado-Gual is Tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). She lectures in Comparative Literature, Literature for Education, and Theatre in English at the Faculties of Arts and Education of this university. She is the author of a PhD thesis on the dramatization of racism in Edgar Nkosi White’s plays, and has published numerous articles on this Afro-Caribbean author and other contemporary playwrights. A member of "Grup Dedal-Lit" since its foundation, she has co-edited the volume of essays The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literatures in English, and currently leads the competitive project"Ageing and Gender in Contemporary Literary Creation in English" (2013-2015). Her most recent articles have been published in reputed journals such as New Theatre Quarterly, Ageing and Society, and International Journal of Aging & Human Development, as well as in international collections of essays.Her present research interests include the interaction between age and theatrical, literary and cinematic creativity, but the theatre remains her main field of study, which she explores from a theoretical point of view as an academic, and through her artistic practice as an actress, director and playwright. Five of her playtexts have been published to date.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN AGEING STUDIES

BOOKS:

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

  • Casado, Núria. “Speaking Up from the Stage: Three Ageing West Indian Women in the Spotlight.” The Aesthetics of Ageing. Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process. Maria O’Neill i Carmen Zamorano Llena. Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2002. 19-32. (ISBN: 84-8409-142-2)
  • Casado, Núria. “Theatrical Responses to Stigmatization: the Representation of Black Youth in Edgar White’s Ritual by Water.” Estudios de Filología Inglesa. Actas de las IV Jornadas de Filología Inglesa. Córdoba, Octubre 2001. Eds. Mª Luisa Pascual Garrido et al. Córdoba: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba, 2004. 433-40. (ISBN: 84-7801-715-1)
  • Casado, Núria. "Black Skins, Old Masks. Ageing Through Racism in Edgar Nkosi White's Drama." The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literatures in English. Maria Vidal i Núria Casado. Lleida: Servei d’Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2004. 17-36. (ISBN: 84-8409-969-5, Dip. L: Z-1693-2004)
  • Casado, Núria. “’The Gulf Between Books and Experience is a Lonely Ocean’: An Interview with Zadie Smith.” The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literatures in English. Maria Vidal i Núria Casado. Lleida: Servei d’Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2004. 37-44. (ISBN: 84-8409-969-5, Dip. L: Z-1693-2004)
  • Vidal, Maria, and Núria Casado. Introduction to The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literatures in English. Maria Vidal and Núria Casado. Lleida: Servei d’Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2004. ix-xv. (ISBN: 84-8409-969-5, Dip. L: Z-1693-2004)
  • Casado, Núria. “Of Lethal Pokers and Stale Biscuits: Tragicomic Ageing in Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane.” Humour and Tragedy in Ireland. Patricia Trainor de la Cruz and Blanca Krauel Heredia. Málaga: Servicio de Publicaciones e Intercambio Científico de la Universidad de Málaga, 2005. 235-43. (ISBN: 84-9747-091-5, Dip. L: MA-600-2005)
  • Casado, Núria. “Old Age as Theatrical Matter: Devising and Performing CollAge, a Play on the Masks and Mirrors of the Ageing Process.” The Text Strikes Back: the Dynamics of Performativity. Gramma. Vol. Eds. Savas Patsalidis and Elizabeth Sakellaridou. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2009. 183-198. ISBN: 1106-1170.
  • Casado, Núria. "Who Is ‘the Other within’? Exploring the Kaleidoscope of Internal Alterity through Laurent Cantet’s and Kevin Rodney Sullivan’s Films on Mature Female Desire." Flaming Ambers: Literary Testimonies on Ageing and Desire. Nela Bureu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010. 305-32. (ISBN: 978-3-0343-0438-2.
  • Casado, Núria. “Pre-dicting the Past, Re-membering the Present, Imagining the Self: the Theatricalization of Memory in Mnemonicby Simon McBurney and Complicité Theatre Company.” New Theatre Quarterly, XXVIII(Part 2): May 2012. Pp 182-189. ISSN: 0266-464x [ageing is a secondary topic in this article]
  • Casado, Núria. “Unveiling ‘the Other within’: the Crucible of Internal Alterity in Laurent Cantet’s Heading South.” Aging Femininities: Troubling Representations. Eds. Josie Dolan and Estella Tincknell. Cambridge Scholar Press. 2012. 133-144. ISBN: 1-4438-3883-7.
  • Casado-Gual, Núria. “(Meta)theatrical Old Age in Two Contemporary European Films.” International Journal of Aging & Human Development, 79, issue 3, 2014, 257-262. [film review]
  • Casado-Gual, Núria. “Ancient Voices in Contemporary Theatrical Forms: The Case of The Bacchae by Kneehigh Theatre and Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, vol. 29, issue 1, 2014. 
  • Casado Gual, Núria. “The Theatrical Power of an Ageing Voice: Inter-generational Reconstructions of Old Age in Trying by Joanna McClelland Glass.” In Building Interdisciplinary Knowledge: Approaches to English and American Studies in Spain. Esther Álvarezet al. Oviedo: KRK Ediciones, 2014. 67-74. ISBN: 978-84-8367-475-8.
  • Casado-Gual, Núria. “Unexpected Turns in Lifelong Sentimental Journeys: Redefining Love, Memory and Old Age through Alice Munro’s ‘The Bear Came Over the Mountain’ and Its Film Adaptation, Away from Her.” Ageing & Society, vol. 35, issue 2, 2015, 389-404.
  • Casado-Gual, Núria. "Old Tropes through New Lenses: Representing the Older Actor in Manoel de Oliveira’s I’m Going Home and Roger Michell’s Venus" Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 32, issue 3, 2015 
  • Casado-Gual, Núria. “Ambivalent Pathways of Progress and Decline: The Representation of Ageing and Old Age in Joanna McClelland Glass’ Drama.” Theatre Research in Canadafor. April 2015.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

Casado, Núria. “Transgressing Stereotypic Boundaries: the Re-presentation of Ageing West Indian Women in Two Caribbean Plays.” VII Seminario Internacional de Estudios Culturales: “(Mis)representations.”Universidad de Alcalá, 4-6 Oct 2001

Casado, Núria. “Theatrical Responses to Stigmatization: the Representation of Black Youth in Edgar White’s Ritual by Water.” IV Jornadas de Filología Inglesa. Universidad de Córdoba, 29-31 Oct 2001

Casado, Núria. “Of Lethal Pokers and Stale Biscuits: Tragicomic Ageing in Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane.” IV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses (AEDEI) “Humour and Tragedy in Ireland.” Málaga 27-29 May 2004

Casado, Núria. “’I Sould Sugar and Preserve My Days Like Fruit!’: An Intertextual Approach to Antigone’s Disruption of the Fallacies of Ageing.” Interrogating Antigone. Trinity College, Dublin, 6-7 Oct 2006

Casado, Núria. “Unveiling ‘the Other within’: the Crucible of Internal Alterity in Laurent Cantet’s Heading South.” Ageing Femininities. Symposium organized by the Re-generations Project at the University of West England. Bristol, Anglaterra, 6 Oct 2007.

Casado, Núria. “Old Age as Theatrical Matter: Devising and Performing CollAge, a Play on the Masks and Mirrors of the Ageing Process.” 6th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology: “Extending Time, Emerging Realities, Imagining Response.” Universitat de Lleida, 16-18 Oct 2008.

Casado, Núria. Casado, Núria. “Old Tropes through New Lenses: Representing the Elderly Actorin Manoel de Oliveira’s I’m Going Home and Roger Michell’s Venus”. 7th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology.Maastricht, 6-9 Oct 2011.

(by invitation): Casado, Núria. “Beyond the Living Record of One’s Memory: Late-Life Remembrance and Oblivion in Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” and Its Film Adaptation Away from Her.” Looking Back to Look Forwards. Conference organized by the Australian Studies Centre in Collaboration with The Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross. Universitat de Barcelona, 10-14 Dec 2012.

Casado, Núria. “Re-visiting the Intersections between Age, Gender and Class through Joanna McClelland Glass’ Mrs Dexter and Her Daily.” Diversity and Homogeneity: The Politics of Nation, Class and Gender in Drama, Theatre, Film and Media. University of Lodz, Poland, 25th-27th Oct 2013.

Casado, Núria. “The Theatrical Power of an Ageing Voice: The Representation of Ageing in Tryingby Joanna McClelland Glass.” 37thInternational Conference of the Association for English and American Studies (Aedean). Universidad de Oviedo, 12-14 Nov 2013.

Casado, Núria. “Ambivalent Pathways of Progress and Decline: The Representation of Ageing and Old Age in Joanna McClelland Glass’ Drama.” 8thInternational Conference on Cultural Gerontology, NUI Galway, Ireland, 10-12 April 2014.

Casado, Núria. “Masks of Ageing in a Playwright’s Life Journey: A Bio-Critical Approach to Joanna McClelland Glass’ Drama.” 38th Conference of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN), Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 12-14 Nov 2014.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS:

  • Casado Gual, Núria. CollAge: A Theatrical Album of a Journey through Life. Created for the 6th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology organized by Grup Dedal-lit. Première by the company Nurosfera at the Caixafòrum, Lleida, 17th Oct 2008.
  • Casado Gual, Núria. Estimada Sarah. Lleida: Fundació Pública Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, 2010. (ISBN: 978-84-96908-57-4, Dip. L: L-940-10). [Awarded with the Talúries Prize to the Best Playtext in 2010]
  • Casado Gual, Núria. El Projecte Dànau. Argentona: Voliana Edicions, 2013. ISBN:978-84-940715-9-1. [Received its first full production in December 2013 at the Teatre de l’Escorxador de Lleida and was performed by the company Nurosfera between 2013 and 2014 in several Catalan theatres]
  • From Catalan to English of the short story “La suma d’aigua dolça i salada dóna seixanta, vint i quaranta” by Núria Perpinyà. Maricel Oró i Marta Miquel, eds. Anthology of Cultural Ageing. Testimonies from Catalonia and England / Antologia de l’envelliment cultural. Testimoniatges de Catalunya i Anglaterra. Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2007. 77-87. (ISBN: 978-84-8409-245-2, Dip. L: L-1134-2007)
  • From Catalan to English of the poems “La fusta d’un naufragi (Hem rentat amb sabó allò que ens salva i n’ha quedat ben poca cosa)”, “Cal.ligrafia trista” and “Laurence Sterne filosofa sobre la condició humana, o sigui, Tristam Shandy parla amb un ruc” by Josep Mª Sala-Valldaura. Maricel Oró i Marta Miquel, eds. Anthology of Cultural Ageing. Testimonies from Catalonia and England / Antologia de l’envelliment cultural. Testimoniatges de Catalunya i Anglaterra. Lleida: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2007. 89-93. (ISBN: 978-84-8409-245-2)
  • Translation assistant and editor of the Catalan translation of The Tragedy of King Lear, published as: La tragèdia del rei Lear. Traducció de Lluís Soler. Lleida: Servei de Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2008. (ISBN: 978-84-8409-264-3) [With dramatic readings directed by Lluís Soler and Núria Casado in Lleida and Barcelona, 2008)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

  • An Introduction to Age Studies– special seminar taught as part of the course “Pensament I Estètica en el Món de Parla Anglesa” (2nd cycle of English Studies 2013-14, University of Lleida)
  • Sessions on ageing as literary topic as part of the undergraduate course on Comparative Literature (2nd year of English Studies, University of Lleida, 2010-2015)
  • Session on age as cultural construct as part of the module on Literature for Education of the undergraduate course English Language and Its Cultures (4th year of Teacher Training for Primary Education, University of Lleida, 2012-2015)
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

http://www.dal.udl.cat/personal/professorat/Casado.html

http://www.lletrescatalanes.cat/ca/index-d-autors/item/casado-i-gual-nuria