Biography
Dr Maria Montserrat Rifà-Valls is Serra Húnter Fellow in Visual Arts Education at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. She completed her PhD in Philosophy and Sciences of Education at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Positioned in feminist and decolonial theories, she specialises in curriculum studies, children's subjectivities, and visual arts. She is currently a researcher in the group ATLAS - Critical Intersections in Education (SGR 01014), and she is also a member of the Institute of Women and Gender Studies (iiEDG). She is the current principal investigator of K Reporters: Reassembling politics across children's cultures to scale intersectional pedagogies (2024–2027, Horizon MSCA-SE).
Dr Rifà-Valls has published in Critical Arts, Ethnography and Education, Visual Inquiry, the International Journal of Education through Art, Gender and Education, and Visual Arts Research. She currently teaches in the Degrees of Early Childhood and Primary Education, in the Degree in Socio-Cultural Studies of Gender, and in the official Master's degree programme in Research in Education (MURE). She has been a visiting researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, among others.