Dr Liesbeth François

Liesbeth François 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 University of Cambridge 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.