Martha Julia Toriz Proenza

Specialist in Mexican theater history

Theater Researcher.
Bachelor´s Degree in Dramatic Literature and Theater and Doctorate in History from UNAM.

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She contributed to the research project “Theater History at UNAM”, under the direction of Manuel González Casanova, in collaboration with CITRU and UNAM’s Philosophy and Literature Department (2007-2009). She was head of the project "Miguel Sabido’s Theater" (2005-2006). She was editor to web notebook Performance and Censorship in the Viceroyalty of Mexico (2005), sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (HIPP) of New York University, which later was edited in a CD-ROM and was part of the first volume for CITRU´s Digital Library. At the National Center for the Arts (Centro Nacional de las Artes), she teached the interactive course “Performance and Conquest” (2004), together with CITRU and the HIPP of New York University. She was responsible for the project “Theatricality in Pre-Hispanic Celebrations” (2002-2003), which was a continuation of the research published in the book Prehispanic Festivities: A Theatrical Performance. At CITRU, she was responsible for the edition as well as for writing the introduction, notes and index of names for the four volumes of the book Twenty-One Years of Theater Chronicle in Mexico 1944-1965, by Armando de Maria y Campos (INBA, IPN, 1999). She was head of the project “Consulting and Monitoring of a Creative Process” (1997-1998); she was editor of the CITRU publications from 1991 to 1994. She received the Rodolfo Usigli Theater Research Award (“thesis” category) given by CITRU and INBA (1992). She is author of essays and articles published in books and academic journals. She has been lecturer and speaker at conferences and events, both national and international. On several occasions she has served as head council for CITRU´s Academic Board. She is founding partner for the Mexican Theater Research Association (Asociación Mexicana de Investigación Teatral) and a member of the National Research System (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores).