The Mario Briceño-Iragorry Center of Literary and Linguistic Research is an Academic Research Unit and extension of the University Nucleus "Rafael Rangel" of the the Universidad de Los Andes in Trujillo. It is linked to the Academic Coordination and the Research and Postgraduate Coordination of the NURR. The Mario Briceño-Iragorry Center of Literary and Linguistic Research is a body on level with the Department of Literature and Language Sciences. It is fundamentally oriented towards research and the development of Postgraduate and Extension activities in their areas of competence. Lines of Research: - Latin American Literature: Postmodernist discourse and Popular Music. - Trujillana Literature. - Hispanic American Literature. - Venezuelan Literature. - Language usages.