Judith Filc

Judith Filc was born and raised in Buenos Aires, earned a medical degree from Buenos Aires University, then decided to pursue a PhD in literature at the University of Pennsylvania. In Argentina she taught at the Urban Studies Institute of the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento and in New York University’s Buenos Aires Program. Since 2002 she has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Institute on Culture and Society, living in the Hudson Valley with her husband and son.