Marta Segarra

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). In 2009, Segarra was awarded the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) Acadèmia award for research excellence in the Catalan field.

She graduated in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 1986, and she obtained her doctorate from the same university in 1990. 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.

Awards and honours 2009, ICREA Acadèmia award for research excellence in the Catalan

Selected works Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados (Melusina, 2014) L’habitació, la casa, el carrer (CCCB, 2014) Escriure el desig. De La Celestina a Maria-Mercè Marçal (Afers, 2013) 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) Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida (with Anne E. Berger, Rodopi, 2010)