
Research Interests: The relation between feminist politics, democracy, and literature in late-twentieth-century Latin America. Her work combines literary and cultural studies with literary historiography, textual analysis and critical theory. Through extensive archival work, interviews, and literary review, her dissertation examines a series of overlooked conferences of women’s writers that began to appear during the decade of the eighties. It argues that these encounters served as mechanisms of literary visibility, while enacting transnational gestures of solidarity and mutual care. Her research reveals that, contrary to previous studies, these conferences were not only interconnected, but also played a substantial role in reshaping the formation of literary communities among Latin American women. Born and raised in Caracas, Oriele has pursued undergraduate studies at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) and Master studies at the Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB), alongside studies in Lacanian psychoanalysis at the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (Nel Caracas). Before coming to Princeton, Oriele taught for two years at the USB where she was a full-time instructor in the Department of Language and Literature. She has published articles on the function of poetry in the narrative work of Roberto Bolaño (El taco en la brea), the rewriting of the national in the novels of Venezuelan author Ana Teresa Torres (Mitologías hoy), and the revisitation of Argentinian canon in Martin Kohan’s narrative (Clacso: Pensar desde el Sur). She has also collaborated to the Venezuelan cultural magazine Mentekupa with short pieces on Bad Bunny, Clarice Lispector, Albertina Carri y Regina José Galindo.