Luz Horne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is Director of the PhD Program in Latin American Literature and Cultural Criticism, Director of the Brazilian Culture Program, and Academic Director of the Office of International Programs at the same university. Her research lies at the intersection of philosophy, literature, and visual arts, focusing on the relationship between aesthetics, temporality, and world-making practices in contemporary Latin American thought and art. Horne earned her Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from Yale University (2005) and her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (1999). She was a Visiting Professor at Northwestern University (2005–2006) and an Assistant Professor at Cornell University (2006–2010). She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard University, 2019–2020) and at the University of Edinburgh (2018–2019). She currently co-directs (with Paola Cortés Rocca) the research project PICT “Estéticas de lo residual. Usos, topologías y vidas desechables en la producción estética latinoamericana” (FONCyT – Ministry of Science and Technology of Argentina). In addition, she is a Research Fellow (Investigadora Independiente) at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina), with the project titled “The Failure of Logos: Epistemology, Aesthetics, and the Cosmopolitics of Meaning in Contemporary Latin American Literature, Art, and Thought.”