Marta Segarra

Marta Segarra, born in Barcelona in 1963. Professor of French Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Barcelona and research director at the Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage – CRAL (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales). Segarra is also a researcher at ADHUC – Research Centre for Theory, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Barcelona. She has previously been a guest lecturer at Université Paris 8, the Collège international de philosophie (Paris) and at Cornell, the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard, among other institutions.

Her research is mainly in the fields of gender and sexuality studies, biopolitics and posthumanism, and cultural studies. She has published several books in these areas: Humanimales: abrir las fronteras de lo humano (Humanimals: Opening the Boundaries of the Human) (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022; French edition: Humanimaux: où placer les frontières de l’humain?, Hermann, 2024), Comunidades con acento (Communities With an Accent) (Icaria, 2021), Fils, un assaig sobre el confinament, la vigilància i l’anormalitat (Threads: An Essay on Confinement, Surveillance and Abnormality) (with Ingrid Guardiola, Arcàdia, 2020), El món que necessitem (The World We Need) (with Donna Haraway, CCCB, 2019), Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados (Theory of Holed Bodies) (Melusina, 2014), L’habitació, la casa, el carrer (Room, House, Street) (CCCB, 2014) and Escriure el desig. De La Celestina a Maria-Mercè Marçal (Writing Desire: From La Celestina to Maria-Mercè Marçal) (Afers, 2013), among others.

She is also co-director (with Katarzyna Paszkiewicz) of the Icaria Editorial series Mujeres y Culturas. Ensayos sobre género y sexualidad (Women and Cultures: Essays on Gender and Sexuality). In 2019 she curated the exhibition Choreographies of Gender at the CCCB. 

Photo: Pau Fabregat