Leonor Arfuch

Leonor Arfuch (9 May 1945 – October 2021) was an Argentine critic and academic of communication studies. A professor at the University of Buenos Aires, her work included the book Memory and Autobiography. She was a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow.

Leonor Arfuch
Born	(1945-05-09)9 May 1945 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	October 2021(2021-10-00) (aged 76)
Occupations	Cultural critic Communication studies scholar
Children	2
Awards	Guggenheim Fellow (2007)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Buenos Aires
Academic work
Discipline	Communication studies
Institutions	University of Buenos Aires

Biography

Arfuch was born on 9 May 1945 in Buenos Aires.^[1] She became an assistant professor at the University of Buenos Aires in 1984 and was promoted to full professor in 1987, before becoming a professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires in 1993.^[1] She got her PhD in literature at the UBA in 2000, and joined the UBA's PhD program in 2002.^[2][1] She joined the Gino Germani Institute as a researcher in 1990.^[1]

Arfuch was a 1985-1986 Latin American Council of Social Sciences Fellow, a 1986-1989 National Scientific and Technical Research Council Fellow, and a 1998 Thalmann Fellow at UBA.^[1][2] In 2007, she was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow^[3] for "a study of identity, subjectivity, memory: narratives of the recent past".^[1]

Arfuch authored several books in fields like communication studies, one of which specialized in media coverage of the Trial of the Juntas.^[4][5] She often used feminist theory in her work.^[4] Thomas Cryer called her "a leading scholar of self-representation in contemporary culture",^[6] and Eva Alberione called her a "great essayist, cultural critic, and keen observer of the present [who] knew how to weave filigree with words, articulating rigorous analysis with a unique sensitivity."^[4]

In 2013, Arfuch published Memory and Autobiography, focusing on the genre of autobiography;^[6] it was later translated to English by Christina MacSweeney.^[6] In 2018, she published another book, La vida narrada. Memoria, subjetividad y política.^[4] In 2019, she worked as a co-organizer of an International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs seminar at the Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti [es].^[4]

Arfuch had two children.^[4]

Arfuch died in October 2021.^[4]

Bibliography

• El espacio biográfico (2002)^[7]
• Memory and Autobiography (2013)^{[6][8][9][10]}