Torrano, Andrea


Undergraduate -Postgraduate education: 
Licentiate in Philosophy and Licentiate in Communication Studies. Ph.D. in Philosophy.

Teaching position(s) at the FCS: 
Associate Professor of Introduction to Social Sciences Knowledge (Sociology and Political Sciences Degrees).



Key words: 
Biopolitics. Monstrosity. Technology. Gender. Feminisms.

Lines of investigation: 
Biopolitics. Studies on monstrosity. Feminist studies of technology.

Bonding capabilities: 
Specialist in Technology from the field of social and cultural studies.

Cyt expertise: 
Specialist in technology, gender and subjectivity. She has studied power and resistance technologies in relation to the production of subjectivities and corporalities. In particular, she has worked with the concept of monstrosity to understand the production of otherness. She has focused on the biopolitical perspective and the Studies on monstrosity. She is currently dealing with Feminist Studies on Technology from a South or Latinamerican outlook to explore specific technologies: domestic technologies, activism in media, social media and AI.

Current research project/program: 
Coordinator of the Program: "Life, Technologies and Sex Politics", CIECS (Center for Investigations and Studies on Culture and Society) - CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and UNC (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) Research director of the project: "Politics of the Fiction Body: Life, Technologies and Ways of Subjectivation", SeCyT (Office of Science and Technology), Consolidar project, Faculty of Social Sciences.