Lucrecia Méndez de Penedo (born 21 July 1943) is a Guatemalan university professor, essayist, researcher, and literary and art critic.
Méndez is the Academic Vice President of Rafael Landívar University, where she has served as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Director of the Philosophy and Literature Department, Director of Postgraduate Studies, as well as the coordinator for the Master's program in Latin American Literature.
She has led conferences in Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, Cuba, France, Italy, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, as well as multiple locations throughout Central America and the United States.
[3] Her area of specialization is Guatemalan literature and she has published works on Cardoza y Aragón, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rafael Arévalo Martínez[1] Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Rafael Landívar[4] and written an anthology in collaboration with Aida Toledo, evaluating short stories of Guatemalan women writers called Mujeres que cuentan, which was published in 2000.
[1] She also has a bi-monthly column in the publication Prensa Libre and has published numerous articles and reviews both local and international newspapers, and journals,[3] such as Editorial Rin 78[7] and Revista Ístmica.