Montserrat Jufresa is Professor Emeritus in Greek Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, president of the Aula Carles Riba (a research observatory affiliated to the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Catalan Studies), and president of the Catalan Society for Classical Studies, a section of the Institute of Catalan Studies.

She has published a wide range of works on the literature and philosophy of Ancient Greece and Rome, especially on Epicurus, Philodemos, the female Pythagorean philosophers, Lucian and Plutarch. She has also studied the relationships between Greek culture and Catalan literature. She has been a member of the Filosofia i Gènere Seminar since 1991.

She is the author of numerous essays, amongst the most recent of which are: “Sappho’s Sisters: Looking into Greek Women’s Lives” (2010); “The Writing of the Fury” (2011); “Hermione, a Figure of the genos gynaikon,” (2011); “Rachel Bespaloff, a Reader of the Iliad” (2012); “The Library of Villa of the Papyrus Scrolls” (2013); “Socrates, a Character in Lucian” (2014); “The Myth of the Motherland” (2014); “The Art of Giving Counsel in the Ancient World: Protreptics and Letters” (2014); and “Guzmán de Alfarache: a Menippean Hero” (2017).

She has also translated and edited: Lucian, Works, Vol. V (2013, with Eulàlia Vintró) and Iamblichus, The Pythagorean Life (2015, with Albert Xurigué). She is also the editor of Information and Communication in Ancient Rome (2011) and (with Montserrat Reig) Ta Zoia: Space in Greece II: Animals and Space (2011).