Luz Salazar studied Spanish Literature at Universidad Nacional de La Plata. She is currently working as a PhD fellow at University of Tübingen, with a project on gender scenes, female writings, female authorships and women readers in the Plus Ultra magazine, edited in Buenos Aires between 1916 and 1930. The project combines gender studies, cultural studies, women's history and studies on literature in the press, among other critical and methodological areas. Aiming at revisiting the modernization process in Argentina during the 1920s —often conceived by the critics as a peripheral modernity or a half-achieved modernity—, it explores the gender subjectivities, the new female writing scenario, the female authorial strategies and constructed images, and the new women readers in the press of this period and, more specifically, in Plus Ultra. In this regard, the aim of the project is as well to read the 1920s in Argentina beyond the more studied phenomena, like the avant-gardes, and to retrieve dissident female voices, authorial strategies, debates over femininity and female practices. In this manner, re-reading the pages of the press allows us to explore complex and multi-faceted processes, and to recover ways of reading and writing, and female signatures.
