Contemporary Irish theatre: a dynamic collection of critical voices

Beatriz Kopschitz Xavier Bastos has an M.A. in English from Northwestern University and a PhD in Irish Studies from the University of São Paulo. She lectured at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora and in the lato sensu Post Graduate Program in Literatures in English at the University of São Paulo. She developed her post-doctoral research on "Contemporary Irish Theatre" at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, with a research stage as visiting scholar at Trinity College Dublin. She also serves as Director of ABEI - the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies-, Regional Representative of IASIL - The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures -, and  representative for Brazil in the IASIL Bibliography Committee. She is the editor of A New Ireland in Brazil - Festschrift in Honour of Munira Hamud Mutran (São Paulo: Humanitas, 2008), with Laura P. Z. Izarra, and the author of several articles on Irish Literature and Drama.

José Roberto O'Shea José Roberto O'Shea José Roberto O'Shea José Roberto O'Shea José Roberto O'Shea is Professor of English at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, in the South of Brazil, where he works with English and American Literature as well as Translation Studies. He has a BA from The University of Texas, an MA in Literature from The American University, in Washington, DC, and a PhD in English from The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. In 1997, he spent a year at the Shakespeare Institute, in Stratford-upon-Avon, as Honorary Research Fellow, working on an annotated, verse translation of Cymbeline, King of Britain into Brazilian Portuguese. In 2004, he was visiting researcher with the Drama Department at The University of Exeter, working on his translation of Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Among his publications, and specifically in regard to his more than thirty published translations, there are works by Harold Bloom, Flannery O'Connor, Christopher Isherwood, Richard Yates, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, W. H. Auden, and the Shakespeare.