Mariana Libertad Suárez

Mariana Libertad Suárez (Caracas, 1974) is an essayist and academic. She holds doctorates in Hispanic Philology (2002) and Information Sciences (2012) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is the author of more than a dozen books of research, including Sin cadenas, ni misterios: Representaciones y autorrepresentaciones de la intelectual venezolana 1936-1948 (Premio Internacional de Ensayo Mariano Picón Salas); Ni contigo ni sin ti: Idilios, tensiones y fracturas entre feminismo y marxismo en la narrativa latinoamericana, 1931-1956 (Premio de Ensayo Stefania Mosca); and La loca inconfirmable: apropiaciones feministas de Manuela Sáenz (Premio Casa de las Américas, women’s studies category). She has also published numerous articles in international academic journals and other outlets, such as “Un atisbo de esperanza: escritoras de Black SciFi frente al racismo estructural” (Premio Librevista de Ensayo, 2023). She works as a professor in the postgraduate programs of the Universidad Simón Bolívar and as a researcher with the Cos i Textualitat research group of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.