Jean Franco

Research

Awards

• In 1992 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex.
• In 1996 she won a PEN award for lifetime contribution to the dissemination of Latin American literature in English.
• In 2000 the Latin American Studies Association awarded her the Kalman Silvert Award for her contributions to Latin American Studies.
• In 2002 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester.
• 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.

  Selected publications

• The Modern Culture of Latin America
• An Introduction to Latin American Literature
• Spanish American Literature Since Independence
• César Vallejo. The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence
• Plotting Women. Gender and Representation in Mexico
• Marcar diferencias, cruzar fronteras: ensayos
• Critical Passions: Selected Essays, edited by Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman
• The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War
• Cruel Modernity