Re-contextualizing Stage Politics: Interrogating Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Uruguay

Ileana Alexandra ORLICH PhD English, Professor, Arizona State University; ASU President’s Professor of Comparative Literature and Romanian Studies; 2001 ASU Centennial Professor; Director, Central European Cultural Collaborative; Director, European Studies Certificate; School of International Letters and Cultures​, Arizona State University; Hon. Consul General of Romania in Arizona. Books: Staging Stalinism in Post-Communist Romanian Theat. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Carth De Stiinta, 2012; Avantgardism, Politics and the Limits of Interpretation in The (Ex)Centric Waste Land: Reading Gelu Naum’s Zenobia. Bucharest: Paideia Press, 2010; Myth and Modernity in the Twentieth-Century Romanian Novel. East European Monographs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009; Articulating Gender, Narrating the Nation: Allegorical Femininity in Romanian Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004; Silent Bodies: (Re)Discovering the Women of Romanian Short Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.