Jorge Figueroa Dorrego

17th and 18th Century British Literature

Current Research

My research mainly focuses on 17th and 18th-century British literature and culture, with particular emphasis on comedy and prose fiction, women writers, and issues mostly related to gender, genre, transtextuality and humour. I have authored monographs on Aphra Behn and other 17th-century female novelists, introductions to a Galician translation of two novels by Eliza Haywood and to a Spanish translation of John Crowne's comedy The Married Beau, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Besides, I have co-edited several collections of essays and an anthology of texts about laughter and humour from Classical times to the late 19th century. At the moment I am a member of the Restoration Comedy Project (Edition and Database) and a project on Political Utopia, Gender and Science in Modernity through Margaret Cavendish.