Dr. Sharon G. Feldman

Sharon G. Feldman is Associate Dean for Division I (Arts, Languages, and Cultures). She holds the William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages and serves as Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies in the Department of Latin American, Latino, & Iberian Studies.

Her scholarship centers on modern and contemporary theatre and performance from the Iberian Peninsula. She is the author of Els límits del silenci: La censura del teatre català durant el franquisme [The Limits of Silence: The Censorship of Catalan Drama during the Franco Regime], co-authored with Francesc Foguet, and In the Eye of the Storm: Contemporary Theater in Barcelona (Catalan edition: A l’ull de l’huracà: Teatre català contemporani), which received the Serra d’Or Critics’ Prize for Research in Catalan Studies. Her first book, Allegories of Dissent: The Theater of Agustín Gómez Arcos (Spanish edition: Alegorías de la disidencia: El teatro de Agustín Gómez Arcos), was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. She is also co-editor and translator, with Marion P. Holt, of Barcelona Plays: A Collection of New Works by Catalan Playwrights.

Her forthcoming book, De Barcelona a Broadway i la gran pantalla: Àngel Guimerà a Amèrica [From Barcelona to Broadway and the Silver Screen: Àngel Guimerà in America], examines the North American trajectory of Àngel Guimerà (1845–1924), one of Catalonia’s most celebrated cultural figures, tracing how his works—adapted into English—maintained a continuous presence on stages and screens across the United States and Canada in the early twentieth century.

In addition to her monographs, Feldman has translated more than 30 plays from Catalan into English, many of which have been staged and presented in readings in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She has also published over 100 articles, book chapters, and other scholarly contributions, advancing the international dissemination of Catalan and Spanish theatre. In recognition of her work, she has been named a corresponding member abroad of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona [Royal Academy of Letters of Barcelona]. She is also a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and serves on the advisory board of the CRAE (Centre de Recerca de les Arts Escèniques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

She has held visiting appointments at institutions including the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (as Mercè Rodoreda Chair in Catalan Studies), the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and the Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona, where she was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer.

As Associate Dean, she supports faculty across the arts, languages, and cultures, oversees the hiring of contingent faculty, and manages curriculum changes within the School of Arts & Sciences.