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We are delighted to welcome Rakel Mar铆n Ezpeleta to the department as part of the Erasmus+ Visiting Research Student Scheme. Rakel is a PhD candidate at the Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona (UAB). The title of her thesis is 鈥楾he Configurations of Identity in the Contemporary Experimental Basque Theatre Scene.鈥�

Bio:

Rakel Mar铆n Ezpeleta has a BA (Hons) in Art History from UPV/EHU, a postgraduate course in History of Contemporary Art and MPhil in Performance Studies from UAB and IT. She is currently a PhD candidate at UAB with the trans-disciplinary project The Configuration of Identity in the Contemporary Experimental Basque Theatre Scene, and she is now a visitor researcher (Erasmus+) at the Theatre Department of UW. She combines professional work as a performer (as actress and singer), with teaching (specially in areas related to voice technique, Spanish diction and oral expression) and with theoretical research: in 2007-09 she was awarded grants from KREA to conduct a study on contemporary Basque theatre historiography; during 2012-13 she was a Research Assistant to Project Barca, lead by Dr. Henry Daniel (SFU-Vancouver). She is member of IFTR since 2013 –usually participating in the PaR WG and in NSF-. Her thesis project conflates historical, anthropological and sociological approaches to the concept of identity, a case study of some current Basque mise-en-sc猫nes, and her own artistic practice.

The thesis project: Which are the aspects of cultural identity that most influence theatre performers today, in the Basque Country? How are these aspects configured in a mise-en-sc猫ne? How can artistic practice inform academic research on identity? Such questions underpin my thesis project, 鈥楾he Configurations of Identity in the Contemporary Experimental Basque Theatre Scene鈥�, a multilayered framework involving historical, psychological, sociological, and anthropological approaches along with a comparative analysis of case studies and, among them, my own research/creation: 鈥楨rbeste (crazy to please)鈥�, a one-woman show cabaret that reflects on ideas about the nexuses between cultural identity and self-identity.