Marta Segarra Montaner | |
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Born | October 25, 1963
Barcelona, Spain |
Citizenship | Spanish |
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Awards | ICREA Acadèmia award |
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Education | Ph.D., 1990 |
Alma mater | University of Barcelona |
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Marta Segarra Montaner (born October 25, 1963) is a Spanish philologist, university professor, and CNRS researcher who develops her work mainly in the fields of gender and sexuality studies, biopolitics and posthumanism, and cultural studies ( literature, film, and theatre). [1] In 2009, Segarra was awarded the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) Acadèmia award for research excellence in the Catalan field. [1]
Marta Segarra Montaner was born in Barcelona, October 25, 1963. [2]
She graduated in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 1986, and she obtained her doctorate from the same university in 1990. [2]
Segarra is a professor of French literature and gender studies at UB, [1] where she teaches classes in the master's degree in Gender, Difference and Power. [3] Since 2015, she has been director of research at the Gender and Sexuality Studies Laboratory-LEGS, of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris. [1] She is co-founder of the Center Dona i Literatura, where she remained between 1994 and 2013, [3] and served as the UNESCO Chair for "Women, development and cultures" at UB between 2004 and 2015. [3] Previously, Segarra was visiting professor at the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris, at Cornell University, and at the University of California, Berkeley, among other institutions. [1] Her research focuses on gender and sexuality studies, [1] literature and women, francophone literature in the Maghreb [2] and, in general, the relationship between culture, politics and sexuality. [1]
Segarra has published numerous books and more than a hundred articles in specialized publications [2] including, Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados (Theory of Bodies with Holes) (Editorial Melusina, 2014), L'habitació, la casa, el carrer ( Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), 2014), and Escriure el desig. De La Celestina a Maria-Mercè Marçal (Write the desig. From La Celestina to Maria-Mercè Marçal) (Afers, 2013), among others. She has also edited several collective volumes, such as Représentation et non-représentation des Roms en Espagne et en France (with Éric Fassin, 2018), Differences in common: Gender, Vulnerability and Community (with Joana Sabadell-Nieto, Brill, 2014) and Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida (with Anne E. Berger, Rodopi, 2010). [1]
She is director of the “Mujeres y Culturas” section of Icaria Editorial, [1] of the international magazine, Expressions Maghrébines, and is part of the editorial teams of various publications such as Critical Studies (Rodopi). [4]