Eli Bartra

She has a PhD in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), 1990. Between 1973 and 1974, she studied in the PHD program of Sociology of Literature at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. In 1973, she obtained her degree of Maîtrise Specialisée in Esthétique from Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She studied the BA in Philosophy at National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Bartra has been a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Campus Xochimilco (UAM-X) since 1977, where she was named Distinguished Professor in 2017. She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI), at the highest level (Level III). In 1982, she was the cofounder of the research area “Women, Identity and Power,” within the Department of Politics and Culture. She has been coordinator of the Masters in Women´s Studies, 1994-1996; 1998-2000 and the coordinator of the Feminist Studies PHD Program from 2017 to 2019.

In 1968, she coordinated the exhibitions in the Olympic Organizing Committee in Mexico; she also coordinated the art expositions in the University Museum of Sciences and Art (UNAM) between 1967 and 1969. She worked at the magazine Artes Visuales, belonging to the Museum of Modern Art, from 1977 to 1980. She has been a researcher and professor since 1976.

Eli Bartra (born 6 September 1947, in Mexico City) is a feminist philosopher and a pioneer in researching women and folk art in different places of the world, but particularly, in Mexico. She is the daughter of the writers Anna Murià and Agustí Bartra, two Catalan refugees in Mexico.