Romina Wainberg is a Klarman Fellow at Cornell’s Department of Romance Studies and will be starting as Assistant Professor in Latin American and Iberian Cultures at USC in 2025. She received her Ph.D. in Iberian and Latin American Cultures from Stanford in 2023. Her research addresses the still unresolved question of what “writing” is. In her first book project, she argues that nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Latin American novelists posited innovative theories of writing in their fiction, debunking the myth of the author as an “inspired genius” and reconceiving the act of penning as a mediated, embodied, effortful, and ecological activity. She's the co-editor of the books Sujetos del latinoamericanismo (2023, with Héctor Hoyos and Florencia Garramuño) and Queer Latin American Voices (2024, with Alberto Quintero).