Jorge Figueroa Dorrego

My research has focused mostly on English literature of the Restoration period (1660-1700). I started studying Aphra Behn’s prose fiction for my PhD dissertation (USC, 1998). After that I broadened the scope of my study to the narrative works of other English women writers of the seventeenth century. The results of that research can be found in several articles, chapters and books such as Tecendo tramas, fiando ficcións. Narrativa inglesa de autoría femenina (1621-1688) (Universidade de Vigo, 2002) and Re-shaping the Genres: Restoration Women Writers, co-edited with Zenón Luis Martínez (Peter Lang, 2003). I used to focus on issued of gender, reception and comparative literature, but I also started analysing the use of humour in literary texts. My most notable publication in that line of research was the co-edition, with Cristina Larkin, of A Source-Book of Literary and Philosophical Writings on Humour and Laughter (Edwin Mellen, 2009). Since 2012 I am a member of the “Restoration Comedy Project”, created at the University of Seville, with several projects funded by the Ministry or the Andalusian Regional Government, coordinated by various researchers. My contribution has involved the publication of some essays about comedies of that period and the analysis of the different comic genres for the introductions of the volumes Restoration Comedy, 1671-1682. A Catalogue, (Teneo Press, 2019) and Restoration Comedy, 1683-1694: A Catalogue (Teneo Press, forthcoming). Besides, from 2023 I also participate in the project entitled “Political Utopia, Gender, and Science in the Works of Margaret Cavendish, led by Julia Urabayen (University of Navarre) and funded by the Ministry of Economy and Innovation. My contribution consists in introducing the Spanish translation of three tales of Cavendish’s Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life (1656), which will be published by Comares in 2025 or 2026.