Born in Caracas. A researcher, essayist and literary critic, he obtained his PhD from King's College, University of London. He is a tenured professor at the Simón Bolívar University, where he has been Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Literature and Dean of Postgraduate Studies. PPI level III researcher, he is dedicated in particular to the study of contemporary Latin American narrative and narrative theory. He has been visiting professor at Brown University (Providence, RI), the University of Salamanca, and Rice University (Houston). He has been a jury member for the Rómulo Gallegos Award and the Pegasus Novel Award, among others. In addition to numerous articles and essays published in specialized magazines, he is the author of Narrative of the dictatorship and literary criticism (1986); The oral region (1992); From the story and its surroundings (1993 and 1997), with Luis Barrera Linares, and La patria y el parricide (2001); editor of Alfonso Reyes: the life of literature (Alicante 1992) and coordinator, with Luz Marina Rivas, of “Novelar contra el olvido”, magazine