Dr. Alec Schumacher, Profesor de Español

(Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, USA)

Alec Schumacher is Associate Professor of Spanish at Gonzaga University. His areas of research include Chilean poetry, the neo-avant-garde, and translation. He has published several articles on Chilean poet Juan Luis Martínez and other avant-garde poets. He has translated works by Jorge Arbeleche, Elvira Hernández, and Luis Correa Díaz. His translation, The Chilean Flag, was nominated for the National Translation Award in Poetry 2020 by ALTA (American Literary Translators Association).

The Chilean Flag, Kenning Editions

Dra. Camila González Ortiz, Profesora de Estudios Latinoamericanos

(University of Reading, UK)

Dr. Camila González Ortiz is a Chilean theatre director, translator, and researcher based in UK. She currently lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Reading.

Her areas of interest lie at the intersection of performance, theatre studies, politics, and translation, particularly focusing on Latin American theatre practices from the 20th and 21st centuries.

She is a founding member of the London-based Out of the Wings Collective, which specialised in translating and promoting drama from the Spanish and lusophone speaking worlds. She has translated into Spanish Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone (2016), Chris Thorpe’s Victory Condition (2017), and Magda Romaska’s Opheliamachine (2012); and into English You Shall Love (Tú amarás) and State of Vegetation (Estado Vegetal) by Chilean playwrights Pablo Manzi and Manuela
Infante respectively.

As a theatre director she has worked with Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil (Chile), LIFT Festival, SPILL Festival, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, The Royal Court Theatre, among others.

Currently she is working on the monograph The Citizens’ Turn: Contesting Neoliberalism in Contemporary Chilean Theatre, and she is co-editing with Professor Catherine Boyle (King’s College London) an anthology of Chilean drama in English translation.