Nora Dominguez

Nora Domínguez holds a PhD from University of Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras where she became a full professor in Literary Theory. She was Director of the Gender Studies Centre from 2010 to 2017, where she held an important role as a researcher of Latin America Women Literature and feminist theory. She has pursued a wide variety of topics, such as the production of women writers in different national traditions and historical periods in Latin America; literary modalities in the autofiction genre; cultural and political narratives of maternity; politics of visibility in faces and facilities; gender dialogues in different national contexts and between disciplines. She was distinguished as Guggenheim Fellowship (2008) and at GEMMA. Master en Estudios de las Mujeres y Género. Erasmus Mundus, Comisión Europea (2008). She was a Visiting Professor at several universities: Duke University, Universidad de Chile, Leiden University (Netherlands), Universitat de Barcelona, and Universidad de Granada. Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), Universite de Toulouse Mirail (France), Cátedra San Martín, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), and at different national universities in Argentina. Among her works are El revés del rostro. Figuras de la exterioridad en la cultura argentina (2021) that won the Premio de Humanidades, Sección Southern Cone Studies, LASA, 2022; De donde vienen los niños. Maternidad y escritura en la cultura argentina (2007) which obtained the Segundo Premio Ensayo, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Argentina. Now she is working on a collective and intergenerational project, "Historia feminista de la literatura Argentina" that consists of five volumes and a gender dictionary. The first volume was published in 2020.