Laura Demaría

Laura Demaría received her undergraduate degree at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, and her Ph.D. at Washington University, in St. Louis. Her research explores spatial configurations and the production of space in Latin American literature and concentrates primarily on the Southern Cone with an emphasis on Argentina and Chile. Demaría has proposed a new theory for "writing in the provinces" (escribir en provincia)  and has deconstructed old reading paradigms for the provinces. While revising space, she is also interested in studying the complex ways in which nineteenth-century discourses are reinscribed in twentieth century literature and contemporary cultural artifacts. Re-readings and rewritings, archives and mapping are the key connecting words of her research. She is the author of Provincias Un-Idas: Un itinerario conceptual en el presente (LASA Press, 2025), Buenos Aires y las provincias: relatos para desarmar (Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2014), and Argentina-s: Ricardo Piglia dialoga con la generación del 37 en la discontinuidad (Editorial Corregidor, 1999). She is also a creative writer and has published Prosa chica (Borde Perdido, 2021), a collection of microfictions, St. Louis Blues (Rialta, 2018), her first novel, and Cruces de Carlota (Alción, 2008), a collection of short stories. She is also the author of numerous articles on 19th, 20th, and 21st literature and culture in refereed journals. Her book Buenos Aires y las provincias: relatos para desarmar was awarded the 2015 "Premio Humanidades" by the Section Studies on the Southern Cone, affiliated to the Latin American Studies Association (LASA); Cruces de Carlota received the University of California-Los Angeles Premio de Literatura Latinoamericana. In Argentina, she was distinguished with the "Premio Universidad" at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Currently, she is working on Laiseca, her second novel.