Qualifications and academic background
- PhD in Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies, Universitat de Barcelona (2025)
- Master’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2012)
- Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2010)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2008)
Activity and/or professional career
Clara Serra (Madrid, 1982) is a philosopher, writer and researcher. She carried out her doctoral research at the Universitat de Barcelona within the centre ADHUC – Teoria, Gènere, Sexualitat, with a thesis devoted to the issue of sexual consent in contemporary feminist theory. She has undertaken research stays at York University (Toronto), Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and LEGS – Laboratoire d’Études de Genre et de Sexualité (Paris). She is currently coordinator of the Department of Cultural Contexts at BAU and collaborates as an external researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has combined her academic career with extensive public and political activity. She was responsible for the Secretaría de Igualdad de Podemos and was a member of the Asamblea de Madrid between 2015 and 2019. As an essayist and columnist, she contributes to media outlets such as El País, Babelia and Tinta Libre.
Research
Her research lies at the intersection of contemporary political philosophy, feminist theory, philosophy of law and cultural studies. She has worked on issues related to identity, sexual politics, masculinity, desire and contemporary transformations of sexual freedom. In recent years, her work has focused particularly on the philosophical and political analysis of sexual consent, addressing the tensions between desire, will, freedom and normativity in current feminist debates.
Publications
- El sentido de consentir (Anagrama, 2024).
- Manual ultravioleta. Feminismo para mirar el mundo (Ediciones B, 2019)
- Leonas y zorras. Estrategias políticas feministas (Catarata, 2018).
- Alianzas rebeldes. Un feminismo más allá de la identidad (Bellaterra, 2021, co-editor)
- ¿Qué podemos aprender las feministas de Sade? (La Maleta de Portbou, 2023)
- Repensar la masculinidad para transformar la sociedad, Idees. (Revista de temes contemporanis, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2021, co-editor together with P. Almeda)
Highlighted projects
- Podcast “El sentido de consentir” (La Casa Encendida, 2024). Podcast director.
- Exhibition “Sade. La libertad o el mal” (CCCB, 2023). Collaboration in the exhibition’s public and mediation programme through guided visits and public dialogues on the contemporary reception of Sade.
- Course “¿Quién es el enemigo? Deseo, masculinidad y emancipación en bell hooks” (CCCB, 2022). Course director.
- “Vidas precarias, mujeres ante la crisis” (Fundación “la Caixa”, 2021). Commissioned coordination of the series of lectures and round tables organised by the Observatorio Social de Fundación “la Caixa”.
- Podcast “Los hombres de verdad tienen curvas” (La Casa Encendida, 2020). Podcast director.
Artistic and dramaturgical collaborations
- “Historia del amor” (Agrupación Señor Serrano, 2025). Dramaturgical collaboration and conceptual consultancy.
- “Tenorio” (Teatro Real, 2024). Collaboration in dramaturgy and theoretical consultancy for Agrupación Señor Serrano.
- “Corsé” (Clara Peya, 2023). Conceptual and discursive consultancy, together with Miquel Missé, for the development of the narrative and theoretical framework of the album.
