Jean Franco

RESEARCH

Jean Franco's research is wide-ranging and voluminous. She was among the very first English-speaking Latin Americanists to write seriously about Latin American literature. She has particularly focussed on women and women's writing.

AWARDS

In 1992 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex. {Link without Title}

In 1996 she won a PEN award for lifetime contribution to the dissemination of Latin American literature in English. {Link without Title}

In 2000 the Latin American Studies Association awarded her the Kalman Silvert Award for her contributions to Latin American Studies . {Link without Title}

In 2002 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester. {Link without Title}

Her book ''The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City'' 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. {Link without Title}

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

''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)

''Critical Passions: Selected Essays'', edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman (l999)

''The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America and the Cold War'' (2001)

LINKS

Biography from Columbia University

Jean Franco, "The Second Coming: Religion as Entertainment" , text of a lecture

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