Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom
Liesbeth François holds a PhD in Literature, awarded by KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium). Her research and teaching activities center on contemporary Latin American literature and culture, with a focus on Argentina and Mexico. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven between 2015 and 2022, with funding from the Research Council KU Leuven and the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). 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 two volumes on, respectively, the everyday and urban space in contemporary literature and culture.
- 20th and 21st century Latin American literature
- Contemporary Latin American visual art
• Mexican Literature • Argentine Literature • Space in Narrative Fiction • The City in Literature • Imaginaries of the Subterranean • Literature and Politics • Bildungsroman and Figures of Youth
Key publications include:
Monographs: • Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. • Andares vacilantes. La caminata en la obra narrativa de Sergio Chejfec. Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 2018.
Co-edited volumes: • Recorridos urbanos: horizontalidad y verticalidad en los imaginarios de la ciudad en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. Edited by María Paz Oliver and Liesbeth François. Special issue of Iberoromania (94), 2021. • Espacio y cotidianidad en la narrativa contemporánea. Edited by Liesbeth François and María Paz Oliver. Special issue of Interférences Littéraires (13), 2014.
