PhD in Philosophy by the University of Barcelona
Núria Sara Miras received a doctorate in 2009 at the University of Barcelona with the doctoral dissertation Wittgenstein y Gadamer: lenguaje, praxis, razón, for which she also received the Doctorate Extraordinary Award in 2011. She is currently professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona and teaches courses on political philosophy.
She has carried out predoctoral research stays at the Instituto de Filosofía of the CSIC and at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. After her doctorate, she has been researcher and lecturer at the Universtiät Leipzig and at the Università degli Studi di Parma.
She was codirector of the festival of Philosophy Barcelona Pensa during four of its editions, from 2016 to 2019. She has also occupied different posts of university management, such as Responsible of Philosophy International Relations (2014-2015), Secretary of the Philosophy Department (2017-2021) and Equality Delegate (since 2019). She is also a member of the Feminist Assembly of the University of Barcelona.
She has published essays and book chapters on philosophy of play in prestigious international journals and publishing houses (Routledge, Brill, Philosophische Rundschau, Lexington Books and Bordon, among others). She has specialized in pragmatist feminism, in particular the works by Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary Parker Follett. Her current research project is about experiences of injustice, oppression and social exclusion from a feminist and pragmatist perspective. With other colleagues, she is founder of the Women in Pragmatism Network and edits, together with Michaela Bella, the volume Women in Pragmatism: Past, Present and Future (Springer, 2022).
She is coordinator of the thought section “Frontisteri” of the magazine Compàs d’Amalgama and the multilingual section of the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy.