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 InstitucióCatalana 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-MercèMarçal (Write the desig. From La Celestina to Maria-MercèMarçal) (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]