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Victoria Rasbridge

Victoria Rasbridge is a doctoral candidate at University College London funded by the London Arts and Humanities Research Partnership (AHRC). Her research explores early modern Spanish theatre and has a particular emphasis on questions of gender, identity, and power. She is similarly interested in theories of performance, embodiment, and practise-based learning.

Alongside her doctoral research, Victoria works as a tutor and lecturer at University College London and King's College London teaching courses in history, Spanish literature and culture, and drama for both undergraduate and master's students.

Victoria also works at the National Theatre Archives (UK) on numerous school outreach projects including projects on theatre in translation. She is also a Diversity Ambassador for the London Arts and Humanities Research Partnership, aiming to promote and support diversity, inclusion, and equality amongst students, and acts as a mentor to support students at all stages in their studies.

Victoria is a member of the Diversifying the Classics translation group which works collaboratively to translate Spanish theatre into English and is on the jury for the 2023 Our New Gold digital storytelling festival.

Academic Publications

Articles:

'Performances of Power: Staging Queenly Authority in Lope de Vega's Los pleitos de Ingalaterra', Comedia Performance, 19 (2022), pp.1-27.

Performance Reviews:

'Inés de Ulloa', Theatre Journal, (forthcoming 2023)
'Mirar a los mirones', Comedia Performance, 20 (2023), pp.161-67.
'Fuenteovejuna', Comedia Performance, 20 (2023), pp.168-72.

Book Reviews:

'Dramaturgas del siglo de oro: guía completa' by Juana Escabias, 'Bulletin of the Comediantes (forthcoming 2023)
‘Lope de Vega on Spanish Screens (1935-2020): The Shadow of the Phoenix’ by Philip Allen, Hispanófila (forthcoming 2023)
‘The Criminal Baroque: Lawbreaking, Peacekeeping, and Theatricality in Early Modern Spain’ by Ted L. L. Bergman,’ Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming 2023)

Conferences and Seminars

Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar, University College London, (Paper) ‘Ruling the Body or the Body Ruled? The Intersecting Identities of Queens in the Spanish Comedia’ (Oct. 2019)
Postgraduate Research Conference, University College London, (Paper) ‘Who is she, anyway? An Intersectional Analysis of Queenship in the Golden Age comedia’ (June 2020)
Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Seminar, University College London, (Paper) ‘Dethroning the Queen: Re-examining Power Play in the Golden Age comedia’ (Dec. 2020)
Polyphonic Communities: Ways of Belonging in the Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, University of Oxford, (Paper) ‘Multiply Bound: Individual and Collective Concerns in the Performance of Queenship on the Early Modern Spanish Stage’ (Jan. 2021)
Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Virtual Conference, (Paper) ‘“If I do this thing, it is death for me” Sexual Slander in the Work of Lope de Vega’ (March 2021)
Recasting the Comedia: Confronting the Challenges of the 21st Century, The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, (Paper) ‘Performances of Power: Renegotiating the Queen’s Identity in the Work of Lope de Vega’ (July 2021)
Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies, (Paper) ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Distancing and Dispelling Female Power in Lope de Vega’ (Nov. 2021)
Enacting Gender: Women on Page and Stage in Early Modern Spain (Conference Organiser and Chair) (Jan. 2022) https://enactinggender2022.wixsite.com/conference
Renaissance Society of America, Dublin, (Roundtable) 'Emerging approaches to early modern Spanish Literature: Intersectional Identities’ (March 2022)
Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Seminar, Kings College London, (Paper) 'Reputation, Ritual, and Power in Lope de Vega’s Queenship Plays ' (March 2022)
Modern Language Association, San Francisco, (Roundtable) 'Comedia, poetics, and performance' (Jan. 2023)
Renaissance Society of America, Puerto Rico, (Paper) 'Agency and the Agentic Power of Female Characters in Queenship Plays' (March 2023)

Awards and Scholarships

Modern Languages Association, Conference Award (Jan. 2023)

Renaissance Society of America, Travel Grant (Jan. 2023)

London Arts and Humanities Partnership, Student Research Fund (Jan. 2023)

London Arts and Humanities Partnership, Graduate Student Workshop Series, Student-Led Activity Fund (Dec. 2022)

London Arts and Humanities Partnership, Professional Artistic Performance, Student-Led Activity Fund (Dec. 2022)

Octagon Small Grants Fund, Early Modern Theatre Workshop & MREMS Seminar (Nov. 2022)

W.I.D.E. Programme, Early Modern Theatre Conference and Workshop at University of Parma, Italy (Oct. 2022)

University College London, Research Fund: AHCT Conference attendance (Spain) & Madrid Archives (Mar. 2022)

Turing Research Scheme: 4-week research grant (Spain) (Feb. 2022)

Association of Hispanic Classical Theater, Everett Hesse Award (AHCT) (Apr. 2021)

Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Conference Award (Mar. 2021)

ARTES CEEH, Travel Scholarship to Almagro & Madrid (Spain) (Apr. 2020)

Arts and Humanities Research Council, London Arts and Humanities Partnership, PhD Studentship (Sep. 2019-Present)

St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, Master’s Prize for Academic Excellence (Jun. 2019)

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