Berta Ares Yáñez

Berta Ares has a PhD in Humanities with the thesis El mito de la Creación en La leyenda del santo bebedor, de Joseph Roth. Contrapoética de redención en el umbral de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. This rigorous study led to the publication of her book La leyenda del santo bebedor, legado y testamento de Joseph Roth (The Legend of the Holy Drinker: Legacy and Testament of Joseph Roth, Acantilado, 2022) and also the Afterword “La imaginación educada de un cosmopolita errante” included in the Alcantilado edition of Roth’s La leyenda del santo bebedor (2024).

Berta Ares international academic career has been recognised with various awards, among them the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, and the Spanish Society of Religious Sciences Prize. A specialist in the genre of the interview, she has published more than a hundred conversations with outstanding personalities in the domain of contemporary thought and culture, including Judith Butler, Nancy Fraser, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Tzvetan Todorov. She also writes for such media outlets as El País, Jot Down, El Cultural, and Canal Europa.

Since 2021 she has been a member of the organising team of Encuentros de Pamplona-Iruñeko Topaketak (Pamplona Meetings: International Biennale of Culture Art, and Thinking), and is currently writing an essay on the legacy of violence in Europe (Beca Barcelona Crea).