Fitxa persona

Carlota Gómez Herrera is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the Universitat de València (UV). She has been the recipient of a Predoctoral Contract for University Teacher Training (FPU) from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities.

She holds a PhD in Philosophy (Ethics and Democracy Program – UV/UJI), with International Mention and an excellent cum laude grade, with a dissertation entitled Discourse, Body, and Life in the Philosophy of Michel Foucault: Projections in Contemporary Thought, supervised by Professors Agustín Domingo and Francisco Arenas.

She won the First Prize of the V National Philosophy Competition Gender and Philosophy (2020) with the essay Democracy, Justice, and Feminism: Iris Marion Young. She has developed part of her research at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (IFILNOVA).

She graduated in Philosophy from the Universitat de València (UV) with the final degree project Sarah Kofman and Metaphor. She received a Research Collaboration Grant with the Department of Philosophy for the project Nietzsche and Feminism (2020–2021). At the same university, she completed two postgraduate programs: the Interuniversity Master in Ethics and Democracy, with Extraordinary Award (2021–2022), with the work Physiology of power: Foucault, reader of Nietzsche, and the University Master in Secondary Education Teaching (2022–2023), with the work Philosophy, Education, and the Art of Living.

She has served as a student representative for the Philosophy Degree in the Department Council (2019–2021), for the Interuniversity Master in Ethics and Democracy (2021–2022), and for the University Master in Secondary Education Teaching (2022–2023). She has also been an elected member of the Claustro of the Universitat de València, the university’s highest representative and governing body, serving as a representative of Early-Career Researchers (2023–2025).

She is a member of the Ibero-American Foucault Network, the Association of Philosophical Hispanism (AHF), and the Ibero-American Hermeneutics Network (RIAH).