Raquel Rivas

Blogger, Concerned citizen, Journalist, Writer/Editor

Independent scholar. Writer, translator and blogger. PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies (King´s College London, 2001). Professor at Simón Bolívar University until 2008. Researcher at the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos (1995-1997). Author of Bulla y buchiplumeo. Masificación cultural y recepción letrada en la Venezuela Gomecista (2002), Narrar en dictadura (2011), El patio del vecino (2013) and Muerte en el Guaire (2016). She lives in Edinburgh and maintains two blogs: Notas para Eliza and Cuentos de la Caldera Este.

Swimming in open waters.

Cultural Studies, Literature, Poetry, Translation