Oriele Benavides

Oriele Benavides (Caracas, 1983) earned her undergraduate degree in Letters from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). She completed a Program of Superior Studies in Psychoanalysis at the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (based in Caracas) and a Master's in Latin American Literature at the Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB). She currently teaches as part of the same faculty (Department of Languages and Literature), where she is working on a thesis on the contemporary Latin American novel. She has participated in conferences within and outside Venezuela on Latin American literature. She is the author of the comic book adaptation of La tienda de muñecos [The doll store] by Julio Garmendia (2016).