Murray Edwards College
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海角社区
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Liesbeth Fran莽ois is Lorna Close Lecturer in Spanish and Director of Studies at Murray Edwards College. She holds a PhD in Literature, awarded by KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium). She specializes in contemporary Latin American literature and culture, mainly from Mexico and Argentina. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven for seven years, she joined the 海角社区 in 2022 as a teaching associate in Modern Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies.
She teaches and supervises on papers with a Latin American component at undergraduate level, and in the MPhil programmes in Latin American Studies and in Literature, Culture and Thought.
She is the author of Andares vacilantes. La caminata en la obra narrativa de Sergio Chejfec (Beatriz Viterbo, 2018) and Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature (Palgrave, 2021). She has published articles on several Latin American authors and co-edited three volumes on, respectively, the everyday, urban space and re-imaginations of class in contemporary literature and culture.
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- 20th and 21st century Latin American literature
- Contemporary Latin American visual art
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Contemporary Latin American literature and visual art, especially from Mexico and Argentina, and with a focus on the following topics:听 听听
- Space in narrative fiction
- The city in literature
- Imaginaries of the underground
- Geological aesthetics
- Radical democracy
- Community and collectivity
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Key publications include:
Monographs:
- Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature听(Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
- Andares vacilantes. La caminata en la obra narrativa de Sergio Chejfec听(Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 2018).
Co-edited volumes:
- Rys, Michiel and Liesbeth Fran莽ois (eds.).听Re-imagining Class: Intersectional Perspectives on Class Identity and Precarity in Contemporary Culture听(Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024).
- Recorridos urbanos: horizontalidad y verticalidad en los imaginarios de la ciudad en la literatura latinoamericana contempor谩nea. Edited by Mar铆a Paz Oliver and Liesbeth Fran莽ois. Special issue of Iberoromania (94), 2021.
- Espacio y cotidianidad en la narrativa contempor谩nea. Edited by Liesbeth Fran莽ois and Mar铆a Paz Oliver. Special issue of Interf茅rences Litt茅raires (13), 2014.
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