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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 university professor, researcher, and writer. She is an expert in philology, which is the study of language in historical texts.
Her work focuses on cultural studies. This means she studies how people are represented in literature, film, and theatre. In 2009, she won the ICREA Acadèmia award for her excellent research.
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Early Life and Schooling
Marta Segarra Montaner was born in Barcelona, Spain, on October 25, 1963.
She studied Romance Philology at the University of Barcelona. This field focuses on languages that came from Latin, like Spanish and French. She graduated in 1986 and earned her Ph.D. (a high-level university degree) from the same university in 1990.
A Career in Teaching and Research
Marta Segarra is a professor of French literature at the University of Barcelona. Since 2015, she has also been a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. The CNRS is a major French organization for scientific research.
She helped start the Center for Women and Literature at her university. She also held a special role with UNESCO from 2004 to 2015, focusing on women and culture.
Over the years, she has been a visiting professor at many universities. These include schools in France and the United States, like Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores the connection between culture, politics, and society.
Books and Articles
Segarra has written many books and over 100 articles for academic journals. Her work often looks at French-language literature from the Maghreb, a region in North Africa.
She is also the director of a book series called “Mujeres y Culturas” (Women and Cultures). She helps run an international magazine called Expressions Maghrébines and is on the editing teams for other publications.
Awards and Recognition
- 2009: ICREA Acadèmia award for her excellent research in the Catalan region.
Selected Works
Segarra has written and edited many important books. Here are a few of them:
- Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados (2014)
- L’habitació, la casa, el carrer (2014)
- Escriure el desig. De La Celestina a Maria-Mercè Marçal (2013)
- Représentation et non-représentation des Roms en Espagne et en France (co-written with Éric Fassin, 2018)
- Differences in common: Gender, Vulnerability and Community (co-edited with Joana Sabadell-Nieto, 2014)
- Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida (co-edited with Anne E. Berger, 2010)
See also
In Spanish: Marta Segarra para niños
