Michael F. Adams Early Career Scholar Award

Nora C. Benedict, assistant professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities, has attained prominence as a scholar of Latin American literature and culture while developing methodologies and tools for digital humanities research. Soon after arriving at UGA in 2019, she launched a digital humanities project to situate Latin American cultural production in an international context beyond the “southern cone” (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay). Her monograph, Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading, broadens understanding of one of the most intriguing literary creators of the twentieth century, Jorge Luis Borges. Her book charts new ground by delving deeper into his work in the publishing industry of Buenos Aires as a Spanish-language hub for print culture. Currently, she is coediting the Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges and working on her second single-authored book, Taking a Page from Their Books: Latin American Editors and Global Publishing Trends, which expands understanding of global literary markets.