Nora Benedict

Nora Benedict is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities at the University of Georgia. Her research centers on Latin American literature, book history, and questions of access and maintenance surrounding both digital and print cultures. Her first monograph, Borges and the Literary Marketplace (Yale University Press, 2021), considers the marked presence of books and other print mediums in Jorge Luis Borges’s life by analyzing the physical features of his works as well as his varying jobs in the publishing industry. In addition to this book, she is also co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges with Daniel Balderston and working on a second monograph that examines the role of international publishing firms in Latin America during the twentieth century.