British-born American academic and literary critic (1924–2022)
Jean Franco (March 31, 1924 – December 14, 2022) was a British-born American academic and literary critic known for her pioneering work on Latin American literature. Educated at Manchester and London, she taught at London, Essex (where she was the university's first professor of Latin American literature), and Stanford, and was latterly professor emerita at Columbia University.
Research.
Jean Franco's research was wide-ranging and voluminous. She was among the first English-speaking Latin Americanists to write seriously about Latin American literature. She particularly focused on women and women's writing and was a pioneer of Latin American cultural studies.
Personal life and death.
Franco died on December 14, 2022, at the age of 98.
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