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"Cheesy does it? or Shakespeare meets Latin American Telenovelas"

Alfredo Michel Modenessi is Professor of Comparative Studies in English Literature, Drama and Translation at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) as well as a stage translator, translation studies scholar, and dramaturg. He has published and lectured globally on American drama, translation, cinema and Shakespeare. He has translated and adapted over 40 plays including Othello, Love's Labour's Lost, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, 3HenryVI, Richard III, Henry V, 1Henry IV, Arden of Faversham, and Marlow's Edward II. He is on the Editorial committee of Ashgate's Shakespearean International Yearbook and Palgrave's 'Global Shakespeare' series, The International Journal of Translation History '1611' of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and MIT's website 'Global Shakespeares'. He is on the Organising Committee of the 2016 Congress of the International Shakespeare Association. He's currently spending a sabbatical year at Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon preparing a book on the presence of Shakespeare on the Mexican cinema.