Luz Horne

Luz Horne is a Professor of Literature at the Humanities Department at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires. She received her PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale University and her BA in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires. Before joining San Andrés, she was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. Her book, Literaturas reales.Transformaciones del realismo en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea, examines the links between words and images in the construction of a realist aesthetics in contemporary Argentinean and Brazilian narrative. She has published several articles on literature, photography and documentary film and she is currently editing a book manuscript on the place of materiality in different aesthetic-anthropological experiences from mid-twentieth century Brazil to the present, exploring a new type of conceptual imagination in conflictive relationship with Modernism. 

RESEARCH PROJECT: The Material Imagination of the Future in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Visual Culture: Rubble, Garbage and Organic Waste