Fitzwilliam College
Storey’s Way
Cambridge
CB3 0DG
Isaias Fanlo is an assistant professor of Modern and Contemporary Iberian Literature at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago. His work on Iberian literatures and cultures and queer theory has been published in scholarly magazines, as well as in books like De vidas y virus (2019) or The Unsafe Stage (2022). He also contributes regularly to generalist media, where he writes about scenic arts, culture and activism. His monograph El llibre rosa (“The Pink Book”) was a pioneer work on gender and sexuality in Catalonia.
Intertwined with his academic teaching and research, Fanlo has built a career as a translator and as a cultural manager. He has been editor, curator and creator of contents for Barcelona’s Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and artistic advisor for Barcelona’s Teatre Lliure. He is founder and artistic director of Terrats en Cultura, Barcelona’s awarded rooftop scenic arts festival, and member of the European Creative Rooftop Network.
His current research moves in the intersection between Iberian modern and contemporary literatures and cultures and a queer, decolonial approach. It engages novels, poetry, plays, performative events, films and TV shows, in order to problematize ideas such as the canon and the norm. He is currently preparing a monograph, under the working title Lo errático y lo obsceno.
- Spanish literatures and cultures (from the nineteenth century to the present)
- Catalan literatures and cultures (from the nineteenth century to the present)
- Theatre and performance studies
- Iberian cinema
- Queer theory
- Race, politics and culture
- Colonial and postcolonial intersections
- Narratives of the exile
Dr Fanlo welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to his interests.
Monographs
El llibre rosa de gais i lesbianes. Barcelona, Columna Edicions, 2004.
Selected articles and book chapters
“Tot desestabilitzant la toponormativitat: una aproximació a algunes iniciatives de resistència queer en l’escena catalana contemporània.” Margalida Pons, ed. Mirades afectives sobre la cultura catalana contemporània. Biblioteca di Rassegna Iberistica, 2023.
“Rewriting Race: The Angels in America Scandal and New Representations of Blackness in Contemporary Catalan Drama.” María Chouza; Esther Fernández; Jonathan Thacker, eds. The Unsafe Stage: Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian and Transnational Contexts. Liverpool University Press, forthcoming - 2023.“Queer Dignity. Intersections of Testimonial Queerness in Theatre, Performance, and the Visual Arts.” Sara Jones and Roger Woods, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
“Cuartos oscuros, barras de bar, pistas de baile y otras utopías queer en el teatro español contemporáneo.” Paola Bellomi; Claudio Castro Filho, eds. Entre el cuarto oscuro y la utopía queer: sexualidades no normativas en el teatro español contemporáneo. Peter Lang, 2022.
“El teatro del postolvido: No parlis amb estranys, de Helena Tornero.” Talía. Revista de estudios escénicos, 2022.
“Apunts per a repensar el teatre en temps de pandèmia.” (Pausa.) Quaderns de teatre contemporani, 42, 2020.
“La vida, pese a todo.” Luz Stella Mejía; Amado J. Láscar; Tomás Modesto Galán, eds. Sin tapabocas: memorias de una pandemia. El sur es América, 2020.
“Supervivència i utopia en el teatre queer i trans.” Marc Rosich, Teatre trans (i altres textos no normatius). Comanegra, 2020.
“Notes sobre el teatre de Guillem Clua.” Guillem Clua, Teatre reunit (2002-2019). Arola edicions, 2020.
“Joe Orton en set escenes.” Joe Orton, Tot el teatre I. Prometeu edicions, 2020.
“Ética de lo obsceno: ideas en torno a la gentrificación del sida en las artes escénicas.” Rafael Mérida, ed. De vidas y virus: VIH/sida en las culturas hispánicas. Icaria, 2019.
“Malaltia, frivolitat, responsabilitat i transgressió: un diàleg (queer) amb Guillem Clua.” (Pausa.) Quaderns de teatre contemporani, 40 , 2018.
“Els invisibles i els silenciats: Algunes reflexions epistolars sobre qüestions racials i queer en el teatre català.” (Pausa.) Quaderns de teatre contemporani, 40, 2018. Co-written with Jeffrey K. Coleman.
Selected translations
Jaime Manrique. “El día que Carmen Maura me besó.” El territorio de lo ausente: seis voces migrantes del Caribe Colombiano. Mackandal, 2022, p. 115-128.
Jaime Manrique, Si me ves por el camino. Seix Barral, 2021. (Novel)
Martin Sherman, Bent, 2014. Performed in Havana, Cuba, in June 2014. (Play)
George Bernard Shaw, “La casa dels cors trencats i Horseback Hall”, in La casa dels cors trencats. Barcelona: Proa, 2009. pp. 31-81. (Essay)
Architectures, TV series from Arte Channel. C33, Televisió de Catalunya, 2006.
Vladimir Nabokov, “Pròleg”, in Lev Tolstoi, La mort d’Ivan Ilitx / La sonata a Kreutzer. Barcelona, Destino, 2004. pp. 11-25. (Essay)
John Dos Passos, “Un apunt sobre Fitzgerald”, in Francis Scott Fitzgerald, En aquest costat del paradís. Barcelona: Destino, 2003. pp. 9-17. (Essay)
G. K. Chesterton, “Pròleg”, in Charles Dickens, David Copperfield. Barcelona, Destino, 2003. pp. 11-22. (Essay)
