Isabel Sans

Isabel Sans received her PhD in Spanish Cultural Studies at Arizona State University in August 2007. In Arizona she taught Spanish, Hispanic American Literature and Hispanic American Civilization and Culture, and performed in many productions of the bilingual Teatro Bravo company. She received her diploma as Ingeniera Agrónoma (M.S. equivalent) at the Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay, and as an actress (B.A. equivalent) at Ichtus Theatre School in Montevideo, where she co-founded the Center for the Studies of Río de la Plata’s Regional Theatre (CETRI). She worked as a journalist for magazines, newspapers and radio programs and as a communication specialist and videomaker for cooperatives and human rights organizations. She co-edited the reference book The World Guide, and deGeneraciones: de los 60 a los 90, a book about politics and culture. Her next major book project is Carnival, Identity and Globalization, which examines the dialectics of the local and the global as presented in popular musical theatre performances in the years 2000-2007.