Sonia Arribas

Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University, she has a PhD in Political Science from the New School for Social Research, New York, with a thesis for which she received the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought. She has taught at the University of Bremen, at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Marymount Manhattan College, and the University of Valladolid. Her research is in the areas of critical theory, literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. She has been head researcher of the MINECO project “‘Gender, the Woman, and the Feminine in the Philosophical and Literary References of the 18^th and 19^th Centuries, Studied by Walter Benjamin”, and also of research groups of the New School, the Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, and the CSIC. She is presently director of the Pompeu Fabra University Institute for Culture, member of the Catalan branch of the Lacan School of Psychoanalysis (LSP) and colaborator of the "Associació TEAdir" and participant in the Research Group on Autism and Psychosis in the Clinical Section of the ICF (Instituto del Campo Freudiano), Barcelona.