Marta Segarra
Professor of French Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Barcelona
Professor of French Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Barcelona, Marta Segarra is also research director of the Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité-LEGS, at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She is co-founder of the Centre for Women and Literature, and also of the Women, Development and Cultures UNESCO Chair, as well as being a researcher in the ADHUC (Research Centre on Theory, Gender and Sexuality) group at the University of Barcelona. She was previously guest professor at the University Paris 8 (Vincennes), the Collège international de Philosophie (Paris), Cornell University, the University of California-Berkeley, and other centres.
Her research is mainly in the fields of gender studies and sexuality, biopolitics and posthumanism, and cultural studies (literature, cinema, theatre). She has published several books in these areas, among them Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados (Theory of Holey Bodies, 2014 – Melusina), L’habitació, la casa, el carrer (Room, House, Street, Breus CCCB, 2014), Escriure el desig. De La Celestina a Maria-Mercè Marçal (Writing Desire: From La Celestina to Maria-Mercè Marçal – Afers, 2013), and El món que necessitem (The World We Need, with Donna Haraway, CCCB, 2019. She is director of the “Mujeres y Culturas” (Women and Cultures) collection of Icaria Editorial, and was awarded the 2009 ICREA Acadèmia prize for Research Excellence in Catalonia. She has recently published Humanimales (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022)
Update: 27 April 2023
Contents
Desire
Clara Serra, Marta Segarra and Begonya Saez Tajafuerce
Collective Action, Solidarity, Social Change
Marta Segarra, Verónica Gago, Clara Serra, Eva von Redecker and Lina Meruane
Marta Segarra and Gerard Ortín
Humanimal Encounters
The World Belongs to Those Who Work
Soy Cámara online
Fina Birulés and Marta Segarra
Equality and Freedom
A morning with Marta Segarra
What does it mean to be a feminist today?
Las muertes chiquitas
Conversation between Mireia Sallarès and Marta Segarra
Feminist Avant-Gardes
Inaugural Debate of «Feminisms!»
Marta Segarra
Blood Ties: Animality and Intimacy
To Think with Judith Butler
Soy cámara online
Judith Butler. Fina Birulés and Marta Segarra
The Gender Trouble: Why Do Bodies Matter?
Donna Haraway
A conversation with Marta Segarra
Women and Public Space: Political Actions (chapter 3)
Soy Cámara online
Desire and Subversion
Lecture by Marta Segarra
Women and Public Space: Control (chapter 1)
Soy Cámara online
The Shout of Literature
Lecture by Hélène Cixous
Open city. Room, House, Street
Lecture by Marta Segarra
Interview with Marta Segarra
Professor of French literature and Gender studies at the UB
Publications
97. L'embolic del gènere. Per què els cossos importen? / Gender Trouble: Why do Bodies matter?
Judith Butler - Fina Birulés
