Alejandra Laera

Alejandra Laera is Full Professor of Argentine Literature at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she also serves as the appointed Director of the Instituto de Literatura Argentina “Ricardo Rojas”. She is a Principal Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Director of the Master’s Program in Narrative Journalism at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. She has taught courses and delivered lectures at universities in Argentina and abroad, and has also been a visiting professor (Stanford University, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Rio de Janeiro, Universidad Nacional de of Rosario, and Wesleyan University). 

She has published extensively in academic journals, edited anthologies and collective volumes, and contributed to major reference works (including Latin American Literature in Transition (1870–1930), The Routledge Companion to 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms, and Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought: Historical and Institutional Trajectories). She edited El brote de los géneros for the Historia crítica de la literatura argentinaseries (Emecé, 2010) and co-edited A History of Argentine Literature (Cambridge UP, 2024). Her books include El tiempo vacío de la ficción. Novelas argentinas de Eduardo Gutiérrez y Eugenio Cambaceres (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004), Ficciones del dinero. Argentina 1890–2001 (FCE, 2014), the literature and art anthology Una historia de la imaginación en la Argentina (Museo de Arte Moderno, 2019), and the essay Húmeda, susurrada, afectiva, creativa (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 2022). Her most recent book is ¿Para qué sirve leer novelas? Narrativas del presente y capitalismo (FCE, 2024). 

She is the series editor of Viajeras/Viajeros for Fondo de Cultura Económica and Editor-in-Chief of the Revista Crítica de Literatura Argentina. El Matadero, based at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.