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Jean Franco
Professor Emeritus English/Comparative Literature
Columbia University
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Biography
Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in
England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in l968 having
previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University.
In l972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later
appointed to the Olive H. Palmer chair of Humanities. She has been at Columbia
University since l982, first in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and
later in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is now
Professor Emerita. Professor Franco is one of the editors of the Cultural
Studies of the Americas series published by Minnesota University Press and is
General Editor of the Library of Latin America series, published by Oxford
University Press.
Professor Franco has been writing on Latin American
literature since the early sixties. She has published The Modern Culture of
Latin America (l967), César Vallejo. The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence.(l976)
An Introduction to Latin American Literature, (l969)Plotting Women. Gender and
Representation in Mexico. (1989).Marcando diferencias. Cruzando Fronteras (l996)
A selection of essays Critical Passions,edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen
Newman was published in October l999 by Duke University Press. Her book, The
Decline and Fall of the Lettered City. Latin America and the Cold War was
published by Harvard University Press in 2001 and was translated into Spanish
as Decadencia y caída de la ciudad letrada in the collection, Debates. The book
was awarded the Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference of Latin American
Historians for the best work in English on the History of Latin America
published in 2003. Plotting Women , Marcando Diferencias, and several chapters
of Critical Passions and The Decline and Fall specifically focus on gender and
the essays, “Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children” and “Gender, Death and
Resistance” have been reprinted on numerous occasions. She is at present
working on racial discrimination in Latin America.
Professor Franco has
been decorated by the governments of Mexico,Chile and Venezuela for her work on
Latin American literature and has received awards from PEN and from the Latin
American Studies Association for lifetime achievement. She has served as
President of the Latin American Studies Association in Great Britain and of the
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