JEAN FRANCO, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Jean Franco (BA, MA Manchester; BA, PhD London) is the winner of the PEN 1996 award for lifetime contribution to the dissemination of Latin American literature in English and has been recognized by the Chilean and Venezuelan governments for advanced scholarship on Latin American literature in the United States. Her work includes: The Modern Culture of Latin America (1967), An Introduction to Spanish American Literature (1969), Spanish American Literature since Independence (1973), César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence (1976), Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico (1989), Marcar diferencias, cruzar fronteras (1996), Critical Passions: Selected Essays (ed. by M.L. Pratt and K. Newman (1999), and The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War (2002).