Elena Laurenzi

Academic secretary

ADHUC-Center for Research Theory, Gender, and Sexuality

PI's research project

Live archive. The memory of the De Viti de Marco-Starace women as a resource for the territory

Elena Laurenzi is a professor of Philosophy of Culture at the University of Barcelona and a member of the Philosophy and Gender Seminar / ADHUC–Centre for Research on Theory, Gender and Sexuality. Her research focuses on two areas: one dedicated to feminist theory, with particular attention to the debate between feminism and multiculturalism, and the other dedicated to 20th-century female thinkers. She has published essays on María Zambrano, Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch and Françoise Collin. Together with À. Lorena Fuster, she edited the monographic issue of the journal Daimon entitled 'Contra la aridez. La propuesta filosófica de Iris Murdoch‘ (2013), and with Marisa Forcina a double monograph of the journal Segni e comprensione: ’Rinda filosofiche femminili. Ripensare la politica e la tradizione' (2015-2016). Her publications include the monographs María Zambrano, Nacer por sí misma. Ensayos sobre Antígona, Eloisa, Diótima (1995), Sotto il segno dell’aurora. Studi su María Zambrano e Friedrich Nietzsche (2012) and María Zambrano (2025). She has edited several works by Zambrano, including the unpublished Dante espejo humano and, with Elena Croce, the collection of letters Hasta pronto, pues, y hasta siempre (2020).