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Marta Segarra Montaner
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| Born | October 25, 1963 Barcelona, Spain
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| Citizenship | Spanish |
| Education | Ph.D., 1990 |
| Alma mater | University of Barcelona |
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| Awards | ICREA Acadèmia award |
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Marta Segarra Montaner (born October 25, 1963) is a Spanish expert in languages and literature, known as a philologist. She is also a university professor and a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Her work mainly focuses on gender studies (looking at how gender affects people's lives), biopolitics (how politics affects life and bodies), and posthumanism (thinking about what it means to be human in the future). She also studies cultural studies, which includes literature, film, and theatre. In 2009, Marta Segarra received the ICREA Acadèmia award for her excellent research in the Catalan field.
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Her Early Life and Education
Marta Segarra Montaner was born in Barcelona, Spain, on October 25, 1963.
She studied Romance Philology at the University of Barcelona (UB). She finished her first degree in 1986. Later, in 1990, she earned her doctorate from the same university.
What She Does: Career and Research
Marta Segarra is a professor of French literature and gender studies at the University of Barcelona. There, she teaches advanced classes about gender, differences, and power. Since 2015, she has been the research director at the Gender Studies Laboratory-LEGS, which is part of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris.
She also helped start the "Center Dona i Literatura" (Women and Literature Center) and worked there from 1994 to 2013. From 2004 to 2015, she held the UNESCO Chair for "Women, development and cultures" at the University of Barcelona. Before these roles, Segarra was a visiting professor at several famous universities. These include Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, the Collège international de philosophie in Paris, Cornell University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Her research mainly explores gender studies, the role of women in literature, and French literature from the Maghreb region of North Africa. In general, she looks at how culture and politics are connected.
Marta Segarra has written many books and over one hundred articles for academic journals. Some of her books include L'habitació, la casa, el carrer (The Room, the House, the Street) from 2014 and Escriure el desig. De La Celestina a Maria-Mercè Marçal (Writing Desire. From La Celestina to Maria-Mercè Marçal) from 2013. She has also helped edit several books with other authors. For example, she co-edited Représentation et non-représentation des Roms en Espagne et en France (Representation and Non-Representation of Roma in Spain and France) in 2018.
She is in charge of the “Mujeres y Culturas” (Women and Cultures) section at Icaria Editorial. She also directs the international magazine Expressions Maghrébines. Additionally, she is part of the editing teams for other publications, such as Critical Studies.
Awards and Special Recognitions
- 2009: She received the ICREA Acadèmia award. This award recognizes excellent research in the Catalan region.
Books and Publications
- 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)
See also
In Spanish: Marta Segarra para niños
