Professor of French Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Barcelona and director of research at the Laboratoire d'Études de Genre et de Sexualité-LEGS, of the French National Center for Scientific Research. She is co-founder of the Center Dona i Literatura and of the UNESCO Chair "Gifts, development and cultures" and researcher at ADHUC (Centre for Research in Theory, Gender, Sexuality of the University of Barcelona). Previously, Segarra has been an invited professor at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes, the Collège international de Philosophie (Paris), Cornell University and the University of California-Berkeley, among other centers.

The research about it is mainly situated in the areas of gender and sexual studies, biopolitics and posthumanism, and cultural studies. Segarra has published various books in these areas:  Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados (Melusina, 2014), L’habitació, la casa, el carrer (CCCB, 2014), Escriure el desig. De La Celestina a Maria-Mercè Marçal (Afers, 2013) and El món que necessitem (with Dona Haraway; CCCB, 2019), among others. She has also published an assessment written by Ingrid Guardiola Fils, un assaig sobre el confinament, la vigilància i l’anormalitat (Arcàdia, 2020). She is also director of the “Women and Cultures” collection, at Icaria Editorial. Marta Segarra has been awarded the ICREA Acadèmia 2009 award for research excellence in the Catalan sphere. In 2019 she would curate the exhibition Coreografies del gènere at the CCCB. She recently published Humanimales (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022).