Dr Andrea Pérez Fernández
IAS Residential Fellow
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Andrea Pérez-Fernández holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona, where she completed her dissertation on the intersection of art and politics in the work of Hannah Höch during the Weimar Republic (2023, extraordinary PhD award, runner-up for the 2024 Enrique Fuentes Quintana Prize).
Her work explores the cultural and political dynamics of interwar Germany, focusing particularly on avant-garde practices, socialist thinking, and feminist perspectives. She was recently recognised with the Mary Nash Prize awarded by the Spanish Association of Contemporary History (2024).
She is currently lecturer in the Art and Humanities Department at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and teaches History of Modern Art and Design and Visual Communication at the EINA University Centre (UAB). She also leads the Social History of Political Thought Group at the Catalan Society of Philosophy (Institute of Catalan Studies, IEC), and is a member of the Philosophy and Gender Seminar (UB).
Pérez-Fernández’s work is published in various academic outlets in the fields of humanities and social sciences, including Ayer, the European Journal of Women’s Studies and Brill. She co-edited and translated a compilation of Hannah Höch’s and Lu Märten’s texts with Isabel García Adánez (Tres Hermanas, 2023).
During her time at LU, she will also be working with Rocío Thovar on an outreach book about local feminist activism in the 1970s, funded by the Nativitat Yarza scholarship (Irla Foundation), and on a critical edition of Rosa Luxemburg’s texts on art and culture, to be published in Alianza in 2026.
During their IAS Fellowship, Dr Fernandez will be collaborating with Dr Kathryn Brown from the Department of Communications and Media, and Professor Hilary Robinson & Dr Matthew Adams from the Department of International Relations, Politics and History.