She has contributed to the critical development of categories such as the monstrous, migration, violence, issues related to gender, race and ethnicity, critiques of modernity, Postcolonial Theory, among other topics.

She settled for a few years in Venezuela, where Moraña became part of the famous team of international Latin American scholars at the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos, including distinguished intellectual figures such as Nelson Osorio, Beatriz González Stephan, Domingo Miliani, Carlos Rincón, Hugo Achugar, Mario Sambarino and many others.

There she established her first interactions with Antonio Cornejo Polar, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Jean Franco, Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda, and Ángel Rama.

Afterwards, she migrated to the United States to pursue her Doctoral degree in Literature, at the University of Minnesota, under the direction of Hernán Vidal, which strengthen her orientation towards the studies of ideology, Marxism, and socio-historical approaches.

Dilemas y ensamblajes (Iberoamericana_Vervuert [es], 2013)[6] won the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize by the Modern Language Association (MLA).

Dilemmas and Assemblages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)[8] won the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate (Duke University Press, 2003) with contributions from Arturo Arias, Santiago Castro-Gómez, Sara Castro-Klaren, Amaryll Chanady, Fernando Coronil, Ramón Grosfoguel, Michael Löwy, José Antonio Mazzotti, Eduardo Mendieta, Walter D. Mignolo, Mary Louise Pratt, Aníbal Quijano, Elzbieta Sklodowska, Catherine E. Walsh, among many others.