Noraeden Mora Mendez

Noraedén Mora Méndez is a Postdoctoral Scholar – Teaching Fellow in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures. She finished her PhD in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at USC in 2023. With undergraduate studies in Psychology (UCAB), and Psychoanalytic training (UCV) in Caracas, Venezuela, and an MA in Cultural and Critical Studies from Birkbeck, University of London, her interests broadly include the intersections between philosophy, literature, and visuality, with a focus on Latin American diaspora and specifically on Venezuela. Her approach is transdisciplinary and investigates experimental artworks and writings that cross the borders between genres, languages, media, disciplines, and nations. Her book project “The Catachrestic Image: Experiments in Venezuelan Visual and Textual Culture” explores experimental or marginal arts to think about Venezuela nonlinearly and pose a larger question about spatiotemporality, identity, and history. She has published academic articles in Spanish and English about cinema, art, translation, and literature. Her experimental texts have appeared in different venues in Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, and Germany. She is co-editor of the independent press flores degeneradas, co-authored manifesto degenerado / degenerate manifesto published in 2022, and published poro, un trípico in 2023.

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• Ph.D. Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, University of Southen California, 2023
• M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 2018
• M.A. Birkbeck College, University of London, 2012
• Graduate Diploma. Universidad Central de Venezuela, 2009
• B.A. Psychology, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, 2007