Armar Páginas, Corregir Pruebas: Borges as Author, Editor, and Publisher

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Speaker(s): Nora Benedict

Event Type: Lecture

Date and Time: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 5:00pm

Location: Maguire Hall, Maguire 101, 37th and O St., N.W., Washington

Nora Benedict is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Latin American literature, book history, digital humanities, and questions of access and maintenance surrounding both print and digital cultures. Her current monograph, Borges and the Literary Marketplace, tells the story of Borges’s profound efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America through his varying jobs in the publishing industry.