Project Members

Principal Investigator

Emma Ingala is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain. She specializes in post-structuralist thought, psychoanalysis, feminist and gender theory, and political anthropology. She is the co-editor (with Gavin Rae) of the volumes Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics (Routledge, 2021), The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics (Routledge: 2019), and Subjectivity and the Political: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge: 2018), as well as book chapters published by Beauchesne (France), Bloomsbury, Palgrave Macmillan, and Edinburgh University Press (UK), and numerous articles published in international journals including Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Literature and Religion, Distinktion: A Journal of Social Theory, Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, Daimon, Ideas y Valores, and Isegoría. She is the co-editor in chief (with Ana Carrasco Conde) of the journal Logos. Anales del Seminario de Metafísica and she has been an invited Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

 

Research Team Members

 

Sara Fontanelli. Graduated in Philosophy, Master in Theoretical Philosophy (University of Turin), currently PhD candidate in Theoretical Philosophy: Phenomenology, Ontology, Hermeneutics (University of Turin / Universidad Complutense de Madrid). She specializes in French post-structuralism, deconstruction, contemporary French phenomenology, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical feminism, gender & queer studies. Her PhD project concerns the relationship between Real and Symbolic in Jacques Lacan's unpublished seminars and its implications for queer theory. She has published in scientific journals such as "Sexología y Sociedad", "L'inconscio. Rivista di Filosofia e Psicoanalisi", "Historia Magistra. Rivista di critica storica". Her book Idee per un Neo-Lacanismo Queer is forthcoming from the publisher Mimesis (Milan).

Isabel Gamero Cabrera. Graduated in Philosophy and Journalism, MA in Philosophy, MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and PhD in Philosophy (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Her main areas of research are feminist theory and contemporary epistemology, in the intersection with political philosophy, with a special interest in the work of Wittgenstein and his interpreters. After some years working abroad, currently she is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 

François Jaran is Associate Professor at the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He specializes in 20^th Century German Philosophy (Phenomenology, Hermeneutics). Ph.D. at the Université de Montréal, Canada (2006), postdoctoral research at the Archives Husserl, Paris, France (2006-2008, financed by the SSHRC) and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany (2009-2011, financed by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung). Until 2011 he was an Associate Professor at the Universitat de València, Spain. 

Jordi Massó Castilla is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Society at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain, where he conducts research on contemporary French thought and aesthetics. He directs the scientific journal Escritura e Imagen and is co-responsible for the research group 'La Europa de la Escritura.' He has translated works by French philosophers such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Alain Badiou, and Gérard Granel. He has also coordinated edited collections dedicated to the thought of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Paul Ricoeur or Georges Didi-Huberman, and is the author of various publications (books, articles, book chapters) on these subjects.

Laura Nuño de la Rosa is a philosopher of biology working on the history and philosophy of developmental biology and evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). Graduated in Humanities, in 2010 she obtained a Master’s Degree in Biophysics at the Autonomous University of Madrid. In 2012 she obtained a Ph.D. on the problem of organismal form in contemporary biology, at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Paris 1-Sorbonne University. After enjoying postdoc positions at the KLI Institute (Klosterneuburg, Austria) and the University of the Basque Country, in 2015 she joined the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Complutense University, where she is currently an assistant professor. Her current interests combine research on the recent history of evolutionary biology with the study of epistemological and ontological issues in contemporary biology, as well as the social implications of biosciences, including synthetic biology, theories of reproduction, and the sciences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gavin Rae is Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He specializes in post-Kantian philosophy, with particular emphasis on ethics, ontology, and political theory. He is the author of over 50 journal articles, 6 monographs, the most recent of which are Poststructuralist Agency: The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Critiquing Sovereign Violence (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), and Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), and the co-editor of 3 edited collections (with Emma Ingala), including, the most recent, Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics (Routledge, 2021). 

Stella Villarmea is Professor of Philosophy at Complutense University of Madrid, and Associate Faculty Member in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. As a Marie S. Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford, she led the research project, ‘Controversies in Childbirth: From Epistemology to Practices (VOICEs)’. As the principal investigator of the project  ‘Philosophy of Birth: Rethinking the Origin from Medical (PHILBIRTH-1)’, she coordinated an interdisciplinary team of philosophers, health practitioners and social scientists around childbirth and birth care. She currently leads a Programme of Excellence on the Philosophy of Birth (PHILBIRTH-2) at Complutense University of Madrid. Villarmea is a main contributor to the emergent field of the philosophy of birth. With an expertise in epistemology and feminism, her works address the philosophical relation between knowledge and emancipation. She has published on conceptual innovation and scepticism, as well as on Wittgenstein, Kant, and Levinas. Her outreach activity focuses on the educational and health sectors.