Eneritz Gómez Micolta
I have a degree in Political Science and Public Management from the UPV/EHU and a Master’s degree in Feminist and Gender Studies from the same institution. My lines of research revolve around totalitarianisms and the role of the state in controlling the biological processes of the population. In my Master’s thesis entitled ‘Block 10 of Auschwitz I (1942-1945). Maternity, biopolitics and memory of Jewish women in the construction of the German body in the Third Reich’ with which I obtained a grade of 10, I was able to interweave the mentioned lines of research with the gender perspective and the historiography and politics of memory. Thus, I was able to recover the experiences of the Jewish women survivors of Block 10 in Auschwitz I, as well as to deconstruct the apparently politically and morally neutral discourses of the perpetrators.
After obtaining a pre-doctoral grant from the Basque Government, I am currently working on my doctoral thesis in the Department of Contemporary History of the UPV/EHU and in this research group, under the supervision of Mercedes Arbaiza and José Javier Díaz Freire and in collaboration with Dr. Deborah Madden, professor of Hispanic Studies at Lancaster University and literary scholar and cultural historian of modern Spain, specialising in Iberian feminisms, women’s writing and history, collective memory and medical humanities. My thesis, entitled ‘Body and memory of sexual violence in the Second World War. From the weapon of war to women’s sexual and reproductive rights (1945-2018)’, deals with the use of sexual violence as a war crime during the Second World War, looking at the case studies of the Third Reich and the Empire of Japan, from the perspective of the victims from the memory and posmemory movement of the 1990s.