David Rodríguez Solas

He is a François Chevalier fellow at MIAS.

David Rodríguez-Solás (PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY) is Full Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He specializes in modern and contemporary Spanish and Catalan theater, cultural memory, and visual and performance studies. He is the author of two books, Performing the Transition to Democracy: Theater and Performance in 1970s Spain (Routledge, 2025), and Teatros nacionales republicanos: la Segunda República y el teatro clásico español (Iberoamericana, Vervuert, 2014). He has edited or co-edited five volumes.

He held visiting positions at both US and Canadian universities. He serves as associate editor of Theatre Research International. He is currently involved in two international projects. First, the multi-volume A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Iberian Peninsula (Brill), and second, a co-edited volume on global far-right performance.