Master in Contemporary Critical Theory

Alicia Valdés

Political scientist specialized in political philosophy and psychoanalysis

Qualifications and Academic Training

  • Postdoctoral stay at Patenion University of Athens
  • PhD in Humanities from the Carlos III University of Madrid (2020)
  • Predoctoral stay at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2018)
  • Master in Political Philosophy from Pompeu Fabra University (2015)
  • Degree in Political Science from the Carlos III University of Madrid (2014)

Activity and/or professional career

She currently has a Margarita Salas postdoctoral research contract and is part of the Crisis of Practical Reason (UB) Research Group. She has been an associate professor and researcher at different universities, third sector entities and a collaborator with different research institutions.

She has been invited to different international and national institutions and congresses and has collaborated with different institutions such as the Conde Duque Center for Contemporary Culture (Curated: La Muerte de la Lectora. Next 2023), National Classical Theater Company (Epilogue, Tenderness and Defeat, 2021), KBR Mapfre Foundation, Raum 404, Germany (Curated: Visiones queer psychotropicales 2018) among others.

Research

Her work aims to address resistance and subversion from different approaches that allow new perceptions of subjectivity, the body, identities and desire. At the same time, her goal is to participate in different forms of creation, from writing, to research, curating, and experimenting with bodies and relationships. Her approach is transdisciplinary and focuses on psychoanalysis, philosophy and politics. Her research is also collective through different projects in which she collaborates with artists and writers.

Publications

Towards a Feminist Lacanian Left, Psychoanalytic Theory and Intersectional Politics (Routledge, 2022)

Her work has been published in several publishers and high-impact scientific journals and she also collaborates with different digital media by writing opinion columns.

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