Beatriz Higon Carde

Beatriz Higon Carde serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, where she also holds the administrative position of Institutional Chair Secretary. Her academic activities are centered at the university's Altea campus (Alicante), with affiliations spanning Art Studies, the Arts Research Center, and the Department of Art.

Her research focuses on aesthetics and arts theory through feminist and queer lenses, particularly examining political discourse in artistic practices, bodily politics, and conceptualizations of excess. As a member of the research group Figures of the Excess and Politics of the Body, she investigates intersections between contemporary art, identity politics, and socio-cultural critique within visual and performance media.

Professor Higon Carde supervises final degree projects across multiple programs including Fine Arts, Visual and Design Arts, and the Master's in Cultural Studies and Visual Arts (Feminist and Queer Perspectives). Her teaching portfolio emphasizes artistic practices as political discourse, exhibition design, and theoretical frameworks for analyzing art in social contexts, reflecting her commitment to critical pedagogy in visual culture studies.