María Concepción Sanz Casares

María Concepción Sanz Casares is a Full Professor in the Department of English Philology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Valladolid. She earned her PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the same institution and teaches courses including Written Expression in English I, Culture and Society of the British Isles, and Analysis of Literary Texts. She also serves as an Erasmus Agreement Manager, facilitating partnerships with Valahia University (Romania) and the University of Social Sciences (Poland).

Her research focuses on:

• Oscar Wilde: Ethical dimensions, social critiques, and symbolic narratives in his tales and plays.
• Contemporary British Theatre: Semiotic analysis of performances, ideological experiments, and gender dynamics in works by Shaffer, Churchill, and Synge.
• Translation: Methodological challenges in translating poetic, dramatic, and modal texts.
• Teaching Methodology: Pedagogical approaches to literature and language instruction.

Beyond academia, she is an accomplished novelist with published works like Journey's End (2008) and Juliet's Balcony (2022). Her scholarly articles predominantly explore Wildean ethics, theatrical symbolism, and translation theory, reflecting a consistent interdisciplinary focus spanning literary criticism, semiotics, and cultural studies.