The University of Barcelona is a public research university located in the city of Barcelona,Catalonia,Spain. With 76,000 students,it is one of the biggest universities in Spain. It is one of the oldest universities in both Catalonia and Spain,established in 1450. It is considered the best university in Spain,according to the US News and World Report and Times Higher Education.
Jack Halberstam,also known as Judith Halberstam,is an American academic and author,best known for his book Female Masculinity (1998). His work focuses largely on feminism and queer and transgender identities in popular culture. Since 2017,Halberstam has been a professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women,Gender,and Sexuality at Columbia University. Previously,he worked as both director and professor at The Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California (USC). Halberstam was the associate professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego before working at USC.
Barcelona'sculture stems from the city's 2000 years of history. Barcelona has historically been a cultural center of reference in the world. To a greater extent than the rest of Catalonia,where Catalonia's native language Catalan is more dominant,Barcelona is a bilingual city:Catalan and Spanish are both official and widely spoken. Since the arrival of democracy,the Catalan culture has experienced a rebirth,both by recovering works from the past and by stimulating the creation of new works. Barcelona is an international hub of highly active and diverse cultural life with theatres,concert halls,cinemas,museums,and high-value architectural heritage.
Juan Pablo Ballester is a Cuban-born artist who works mainly with photography and video art,although he has also worked with installations and performance art. He has also developed activities as a curator,assistant curator and cultural manager.
Simona Škrabec is a Slovene literary critic,essayist and translator who lives and works in Barcelona. She spent her childhood in the small town of Ribnica in the region of Lower Carniola. She has lived in Barcelona since 1992. Skrabec has translated several books from Slovenian to Catalan and from Catalan to Slovenian. In addition to these two languages,she is fluent in Spanish,Serbo-Croatian,German,English and French.
Arturo Arias is a Guatemalan novelist and critic. His early life was marked by the overthrow of democracy in 1954,and the ensuing military dictatorships and civil rebellions. These experiences,along with a visit to refugee camps on the Guatemala-Mexico border in 1982,sparked his dedication to peoples and Indigenous rights and inspired his scholarly research.
Bashkim Shehu is an Albanian writer who lives in Barcelona,Spain.
D. Sam Abrams is a poet,translator and critic. He is considered an authority on the Catalan language. He holds a degree in Hispanic Studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Valerie Miles is a publisher,writer,translator and the co–founder of Granta en español. She is known for promoting Spanish and Latin American literature and their translation in the English speaking world,at the same time as bringing American and British authors to Spain and Latin America for the first time,working with main publishing houses on the sector. She is currently the co-director of Granta en español and The New York Review of Books in its Spanish translation. On 2012 she co-curated a Roberto Bolaño exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona. In addition,she is a professor in the post-graduate program for literary translation at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
Marta Sanz-Solé is a Spanish mathematician specializing in probability theory. She obtained her PhD in 1978 from the University of Barcelona under the supervision of David Nualart.
Zaida MuxíMartínez is an Argentine architect and city planner who graduated in the Faculty of Architecture,Design and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires,
Licia Verde is an Italian cosmologist and theoretical physicist and currently ICREA Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Barcelona. Her research interests include large-scale structure,dark matter,dark energy,inflation and the cosmic microwave background.
Ileana Rodríguez is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the Ohio State University,and she is also affiliated with the Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica (IHNCA).
Laura Borràs i Castanyer is a Spanish philologist,academic and politician from Catalonia who was the President of the Parliament of Catalonia until her suspension as member of the Parliament of Catalonia under allegations of corruption.
Eulàlia Lledói Cunill is a doctor in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona,a specialist in sexism and language research. She is the author of the first guide in Spain on the treatment of gender violence and media,published in 1999 by the Andalusian Women's Institute and Radio y Televisión de Andalucía. She has received several awards for her work,including the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2008. She is currently a contributor to HuffPost.
Núria Sebastián Gallés is a cognitive scientist known for her work on bilingual language development and the impact of bilingualism on cognition. She is Professor of Psychology at Pompeu Fabra University where she heads the Speech Acquisition and Perception (SAP) Research Group. In 2012,Sebastián Gallés received the Narcis Monturiol Medal as recognition of her scientific contributions. She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2016.
Åsa Wikforss is a professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University,and a member of the Swedish Academy.
Gabriele Schor,born in Vienna in 1961,is an Austrian writer,art critic and curator. She is a specialist of the feminist avantgarde of the 1970s.
Ingrid Guardiola Sánchez is a Spanish director,producer and cultural essayist,and the director of the Bòlit Cultural Center in Girona since 2021.
Eva Piquer i Vinent is a Catalan writer and journalist. She is the director and editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Catorze.
