Nora Benedict received her Ph.D. in Spanish from UVA in 2017. From 2017-2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. Nora is currently an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities at the University of Georgia. Her research centers on twentieth-century 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: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading (under contract with Yale University Press), considers the marked presence of books, periodicals, and other print mediums in Jorge Luis Borges’s life by analyzing the physical features of his publications, which she reads through the lens of analytical bibliography and material studies.
“UVa prepared me for an academic career with their rigorous program requirements and dedicated faculty mentorship. Moreover, the numerous opportunities for professionalization, ranging from mock interviews and practice job talks to workshops on how to present and publish research, provided me with the tools I needed to succeed.”