Elsa Drucaroff is an Argentine-born Jewish author, literary critic, university professor, and feminist scholar based in Buenos Aires. Holding a long-standing academic tenure at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), she is a definitive authority on contemporary Latin American literary criticism, gender studies, and the narrative memory of dictatorship-era exile, while functioning as a leading intellectual within Argentina’s progressive Jewish movements.
Born and raised in a Jewish family in Buenos Aires, Drucaroff spent her formative years under Argentina’s military dictatorship (1976–1983). She pursued her advanced studies at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), where she earned a Doctorate in Literature and subsequently secured a tenured professorship. Throughout her career, Drucaroff has published numerous academic monographs and historical fiction volumes examining the dynamics of class, gender, and political violence in Argentine prose. Her research focuses on institutional discourse analysis, the memory of state terrorism under the dictatorship, and Latin American feminist literature.
Following the October 2023 escalation, Elsa Drucaroff mobilized with prominent regional cultural figures to co-sign the historic manifesto Gaza: Before It’s Too Late, which condemned Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as genocide while demanding an immediate ceasefire and international intervention, a collective action she paired with public resistance against efforts by mainstream Argentine organizations (such as AMIA and DAIA) to equate Palestinian solidarity with antisemitism.