Jordi Vilaró Berdusan is BA in Catalan Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), MA in Theory of Theatre and Critique and PHD in Theatre Studies (International Doctoral Research Component) both at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is currently working as Assistant Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and his main research interest is the reception and influence of Anglo-Saxon playwrights in Catalonia. He is member of the Grup d’Estudis de Literatura Catalana Contemporània, an academic research group focused on contemporary Catalan literature, and he has published several articles, prologues and reviews. He is about to publish his first essay book: L’amabilitat dels desconeguts (Institut del Teatre, 2021), a study about the reception of the plays of Tennessee Williams in Barcelona during the Francoism.