Mónica Szurmuk

Mónica Szurmuk is Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina, and a Professor of Latin American Literature at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín where she chairs the M.A. program in Latin American Literatures. She is the author of Women in Argentina, Early Travel Narratives, La vocación desmesurada: Una biografía de Alberto Gerchunoff and Malmö. She has coedited Mujeres en viaje, Memoria y ciudadanía, Dictionary of Latin American Studies, Sitios de la memoria: México Post ´68, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature, Entre mundos y lenguas: las cartas de un maestro de la Alliance Israélite Universelle, Latin American Literature in Transition 1980-2017 and A History of Argentine Literature. She is the editor of the series “Latin American Literature in Transition” for Cambridge University Press. She has recently held the Chaîre des Amériques at the Université de Rennes, a visiting professorship at the Université Paris-Est Créteil, and the De Fortabat Visiting Scholarship at the Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. She is the lead investigator of the collective research-intervention project Intimate Cartographies in Community, which seeks to develop alternative, localized experiences of memory, trauma, and community in marginalized suburbs of Buenos Aires. This project engages through artistic practices with dedicated sites of memory, community organizations, and contested wetlands, moving beyond a humanist conception of nature to propose a broader understanding of memory—one that incorporates geographical, geological, and biological traces left by processes of colonization, industrialization, and extractivism. Szurmuk has received funding from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina, the National Council of Humanities, Sciences, and Technologies of Mexico, Conaculta (Mexico), the American Association of University Women, Global Challenges Research Fund (UK) and UC-Mexus.