Marta Segarra
Professor of French Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Barcelona
Director of Research at the Centre for Research on the Arts and Language (CRAL) – National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) – and Professor of French Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Barcelona. She is also a researcher at ADHUC–Research Centre for Theory, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Barcelona. Previously, Segarra has been a visiting professor at Université Paris 8, the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris), and at Cornell University, the University of California-Berkeley, and Harvard University, among other institutions.
Her research primarily focuses on gender and sexuality studies, biopolitics and posthumanism, as well as cultural studies. Segarra has published several books in these fields: Humanimales: abrir las fronteras de lo humano (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022; in French: Humanimaux: où placer les frontières de l’humain?, Hermann, 2024), Comunidades con acento (Icaria, 2021), Fils, un ensayo sobre el confinamiento, la vigilancia y la anormalidad (with Ingrid Guardiola; Arcàdia, 2020), El món que necessitem (with Donna Haraway; CCCB, 2019), Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados (Melusina, 2014), L’habitació, la casa, el carrer (CCCB, 2014), and Escriure el desig. De La Celestina a Maria-Mercè Marçal (Afers, 2013), among others. She is also co-director (along with Katarzyna Paszkiewicz) of the collection Mujeres y Culturas. Ensayos sobre género y sexualidad, published by Icaria Editorial. In 2019, she curated the exhibition "Choreographies of Gender" at the CCCB.
Update: 3 February 2025
Contents
Judith Butler, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Marta Segarra
New political imaginaries
Corine Pelluchon and Marta Segarra
Preserving life—a new Enlightenment for a shared planet
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?
Mireia Sallarès and Marta Segarra
Las muertes chiquitas
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
