29th Borges Lecture
The Anglo-Argentine Society 29th Borges Lecture
Wednesday 4 November 2026 – 18:30 -20:30hs.
Ambassador’s Residence
49 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QZ
Limited Spaces –
To reserve your place, please complete the Google Form here and make your donation via our website here.
Please submit one registration form per guest.
The suggested donation is £20 per person for members and £25 per person for non-members, which helps cover the cost of the wine and empanadas. Any additional donations in support of the Society’s work and chosen charities are warmly welcome.
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About Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
Dr Patricia Novillo Corvalán is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury. She is the author of Borges and Joyce: An Infinite Conversation (Routledge, 2011) and Modernism and Latin America: Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange (Routledge, 2018). She has also published numerous articles, chapters and edited volumes on writers including Virginia Woolf, Victoria Ocampo, Samuel Beckett, Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig, Juan Filloy, Gabriela Mistral and Roberto Bolaño.
Her work has also engaged with the growing field of the Medical Humanities, and her edited collection, Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine (2015), was a pioneering contribution to this emerging field. In 2025, she published an article in Romance Studies exploring cultural and artistic representations of the 1871 epidemic of yellow fever in Buenos Aires.
Her public engagement includes appearances on BBC programmes including Woman’s Hour and The Forum on the BBC World Service, where she took part in a programme on Jorge Luis Borges alongside Professors Evelyn Fishburn and Edwin Williamson.
