Rate My Professor Catherine Boyle

Boyle’s research interests encompass Chilean literature, theatre, and cultural history; Spanish American and Hispanic theatre studies; translation and cultural transmission; and gender studies, particularly Spanish American women’s writing including Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Gabriela Mistral, Violeta Parra, and Isidora Aguirre. Notable publications include her translation House of Desires (2004, performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company), co-edited The Spanish Golden Age in English: Perspectives on Performance (2007), Language Acts and Worldmaking: How and Why the Languages We Use Shape Our World and Lives (co-authored with Debra Kelly, 2022), and Multilingual Narratives of a Pandemic: Covid 19 and Worldmaking (co-authored with Renata Brandão, Anita Barrait, and Natalia Stengel Peña, 2023). She serves as Director of the Centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking in the Global Cultures Institute, Principal Investigator for major projects such as Language Acts and Worldmaking (AHRC-funded), Out of the Wings (AHRC), and an upcoming Leverhulme Trust project on theatre research, translation, and performance from Chile to the UK starting in 2025. Boyle co-founded and has edited the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies since 1992, was President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland from 2020 to 2024, and has received awards including the Excellence in Innovation & Impact Award (2012), Supervisory Excellence Award (2008), and a 2026 King’s Engaged Research Award. Her contributions extend to public engagement and collaborations with theatre practitioners.