Laura Monrós-Gaspar is Full Professor in English at the Universitat de València, where she leads the research group “Literature, Arts and Performance”. Between 2015 and 2024 she was Head of the Area of Performing Arts at the office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Culture at the UV. Her research focuses on the reception of Antiquity in the nineteenth century, on which she has published extensively. Her latest project, to be published as an OUP monograph (2025), traces the relationship between women and the reception of the Classics in liminal spaces of entertainment throughout the nineteenth century. Monrós-Gaspar also collaborates with contemporary theatre and dance companies to bring to light hidden histories of the British nineteenth-century entertainment industry for modern audiences.
She is the author of Cassandra the Fortune-Teller: Prophets, Gipsies and Victorian Burlesque (Bari: Levante Editori, 2011) and Victorian Classical Burlesques. A Critical Anthology (London: Bloomsbury, 2015). Other publications include "Epic Cassandras in Performance (1795-1868)", in Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century, eds, Fiona Macintosh, Justine Mc Connell, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward (Oxford University Press, 2018).