Lorena Moncada De Meza
Lorena Moncada de Meza was born in Venezuela and completed a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Linguistics (2014) at the University of the Andes in Mérida, Venezuela. After being a professor at this university for five years, she emigrated to the Dominican Republic, where she worked at the Dr. Miguel Canela Lázaro Science High School, an educational initiative that provides free and quality education in a rural area of the island. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Hispanic Studies program at Western University (Canada), and she is a teaching assistant for Spanish courses. De Meza's research area is Latin American neo-police literature and the representation of political authoritarianism in the Venezuelan contemporary novel. Moncada has collaborated since 2022 as a research assistant in Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador as part of the transcription and translation team.