Regina Llamas

IE University, Madrid, Spain

Regina Llamas is currently Associate Professorin the Humanities at IE University where she teaches Chinese History and Culture. She holds a BA from Beijing University, an MA in Regional Studies East Asia (Harvard University), and a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures (Harvard University). Her earlier work, both in English and Spanish, focused on southern Chinese drama, dramatic historiography, modern ethnography and dramatic performance, and the later Qing commentarial dramatic tradition. She is currently working on a monograph on the historiography of Chinese drama and how the discipline was formed. She is the author of Top Graduate Zhang Xie: The Earliest Chinese Extant Chinese Southern Play (CUP, 2021) and together with Patricia Sieber (Ohio State University) How to Read Chinese Drama (CUP, 2022).