| Josefina Ludmer | |
| Birth Date: | 3 May 1939 |
| Birth Place: | San Francisco (Córdoba) |
| Death Place: | Buenos Aires |
| Nationality: | Argentinian |
| Occupation: | professor, essayist, writer, and literary critic |
| Known For: | Books: El género gauchesco. Un tratado sobre la patria (1988), translated as The Gaucho Genre: A Treatise on the Motherland (2002); and El cuerpo del delito. Un manual (1999), translated as The Corpus Delicti: A Manual of Argentine Fictions (2004) |
| Parents: | Beile Nemirovsky Natalio Ludmer |
| Awards: | Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984; Konex Platinum Prize (Linguistic Theory and Literature), 2016; Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires, 2010. |
| Alma Mater: | University of Rosario |
| Discipline: | Literary critic |
| Sub Discipline: | Latin American literature |
| Workplaces: | Yale University, University of Buenos Aires |
Josefina Ludmer (San Francisco, Córdoba – May 3, 1939; Buenos Aires, December 10, 2016) was an Argentinian professor, essayist, writer, and literary critic.[1] She was a professor at the University of Buenos Aires (1984–1991)[2] and later at Yale University (1988–2005), specializing in Latin American literature.[3]