Melisa Redondo

Melisa Redondo
(Buenos Aires, 1988)
(B.A, Sociology, Universidad de Buenos Aires; M.A., Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University) is currently pursuing her PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires with a CONICET scholarship. She is a member of the Center for Intellectual History at the National University of Quilmes. She teaches Introduction to the Knowledge of Society and the State (Carassai chair) in the Common Basic Cycle at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and previously taught at the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism at the same university.
 
Her research focuses on the relationship between humor and society in Argentina from the 1950s to the 1980s. Specifically, she analyzes the comedian Alberto Olmedo’s humor as a way of accessing the imaginations of the broad sectors making up his audience.