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Franco Laguna Correa

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Franco Laguna Correa
Born (1984-09-20) September 20, 1984 (age 40)
OccupationEthnographer
Years active2008-present
Academic background
Alma materUNC-Chapel Hill
Autonomous University of Madrid
University of Pittsburgh
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Portland State University
Academic work
DisciplineCultural Studies, Social Anthropology, Philosophy, Literary Studies.
InstitutionsUniversity of Pittsburgh, University of Denver, High Point University.


Franco Laguna Correa is an ethnographer and writer, also known for his heteronyms "Francisco Laguna-Correa," "Dr. Crank," "Crank," "Sardine," "f.l Crank," "Gaetano Fonseca" and "Mehmet Amazigh."[1][2][3] He has been included by literary critics in the so-called "New Latino Boom," a literary movement that features 21st-century Latin American fiction authors writing in Spanish in the United States.[4] He has contributted to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (ORE) with the essay "Brown/Brownness/Mestizaje".[5]

He was awarded in 2012 the National Literary Prize of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), an institution based in New York City.[6] In 2013, he received the International Poetry Prize of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes.[7] In 2016, Laguna Correa was one of the recipients of The Fuerza Award, a social recognition for his intellectual activism in the Pittsburgh area granted by The City of Pittsburgh, the collective Café con Leche, and The Latin American Cultural Union (LACU).[8] The Chicago Review of Books recommended his book Crush Me (a broken novel) for the 2017 National Poetry Month.[9]

His novel Wild North was included in the list of best Mexican fiction of 2017 and published in the daily newspaper El Informador.[10]

He has been invited to deliver talks about his research at various institutions, including Emory University, the University of California, Texas State University,[11] and Duke University.[2]

Besides contributing on regular basis to the online publications E-International Relations and Forum Nepantla; he is the creator of the online project Cyber~Texts.

Education & Teaching

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He graduated from the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria in 2001 after being forced to interrupt his studies due to the 1999 UNAM strike.He began his university studies at The School of Philosophy and Letters and The School of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, which is often cited as the most prestigious university of the Spanish-speaking world.[12]

He completed his undergraduate education at Portland State University, where he received a double BA in Liberal Studies and Literature. In addition, he completed a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Pittsburgh and two M.A. degrees, one in Social Anthropology and another in Philosophy, both at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

He was the recipient in 2014 of the K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 2016 he received a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Cultural and Literary Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[13] He has held researching and teaching appointments at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pittsburgh, High Point University, the University of Denver, and Universidad del Valle de México.[14][15][16][17]

Theoretical Work

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He has published scholarly works on various subjects, including exile, cognitive approaches to cultural modernity, the implications of neoliberalism in the production of literary texts, postmodernity, subalternity, the intersection of culture and sound, among others. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation (2023) and the A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States (2023) credit Laguna Correa for coining the term "New Latino American", which puts forward the notion that in the United States new Latin American cultural agents are entangled within the framework of global capitalism as producers of cultural artifacts distinct to those produced by traditional Latino communities.[18][19][20] He contributed to the re-discovery of the 19-century novella Perico by Arcadio Zentella with his academic article, "Recuperando a "Perico" de Arcadio Zentella como un proyecto subalterno de liberación," published in 2013 by the journal A Contracorriente of North Carolina State University.[21][22]

Selected criticism

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Encyclopedia entry "Brown/Brownness/Mestizaje" (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2022).[23]

"Portraying Gender and Ethnicity in Black and White in Roma (2018) by Alfonso Cuarón" (PopMeC, 2021).[24]

"Ray Bradbury on War, Recycling, and Artificial Intelligence" (Public Books/JSTOR Daily, 2020).[25][26]

"Ferdydurke (1937), Les Enfants Terribles (1929), and the Future of Childhood" (Forum Nepantla, 2020).

In Contemporary U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish: Straddling Identities, essay "The Rise of Latino Americanism: Deterritorialization and Postnational Imagination in New Latino American Writers" (Palgrave Pivot, 2018).[27]

In Volver a México : espacios, medios y poéticas del regreso, essay "Narrando el exilio y la experiencia de retorno de Francisco Zarco: personalidad, encuentros y enfermedad de un liberal mexicano" (El Colegio de San Luis, 2015).[28]

"Recuperando a Perico de Arcadio Zentella como un proyecto subalterno de liberación: limitaciones historiográficas en el siglo XIX mexicano," (A Contracorriente: Journal of Latin American Studies, 2013).

Selected bibliography

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Essays
Title Publisher Year of Publication Notes
Esclavitud en Tabasco durante el Porfiriato Pensamiento Libre 2020 Published with the heteronym "F. Laguna Correa"
La vida después del presente: la irrupción de la inteligencia artificial en la vida cotidiana Pensamiento Libre 2020 Published with the heteronym "F. Laguna Correa"
Novels
Title Publisher Year of Publication
Acedia under the heteronym of "f.l. Crank" Rayo Press 2020
Ortodoxa Suburbano Ediciones 2018
Wild North Rayo Press 2016
Novellas
Title Publisher Year of Publication
The Invisible Militia under the heteronym "Dr. Crank" Radical Narratives 2020
Diario Supino under the heteronym "f.l. Crank" Rayo Press 2020
Poetry
Title Publisher Year of Publication Notes
Requiem for The Unhappy under the heteronym "f.l. Crank" Radical Narratives 2020
Poesía Temprana (2005-2012) under the heteronym "Gaetano Fonseca" Miglior Fabbro Eds. 2020
Crush Me: Ría Brava (a broken novel) under the heteronym "f.l. Crank" Radical Narratives 2017 National Poetry Prize of the University of Aguascalientes
Flash-fictions
Title Publisher Year of Publication Notes
Finales felices Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española 2012 National Literary Award of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language
Short Stories
Title Publisher Year of Publication
Historia de un hombre devastado por el siglo XX under the heteronym "F. Laguna Correa" Rayo Press 2020
Sentencia definitiva under the heteronym "F. Laguna Correa" Rayo Press 2020
Crítica literaria y otros cuentos Editorial Paroxismo 2011
Memoir
Title Publisher Year of Publication
Portable Museum: Lighter Than Air Real Time 2020
Hybrid Genres
Title Publisher Year of Publication
Pedagogy for (all): Reading Lessons under the heteronym "Dr. Crank" Thinking Books 2020
The Book Where You Surrender under the heteronym "Dr. Crank" Radical Narratives 2020
Aphorism(s) under the heteronym "Dr. Crank" Radical Narratives 2020
Resquebrajadura: deforme y mutilado, este relato Editorial Paroxismo 2014

Personal life

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Franco currently lives in Mexico City, where he works as a legal analyst besides holding a remote interdisciplinary research position at the University of Pittsburgh.[29]

References

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  1. ^ "Franco Laguna Correa". E-International Relations. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  2. ^ a b Forum Nepantla. "Mehmet Amazigh".
  3. ^ Francisco Laguna-Correa in Words Without Borders: https://wordswithoutborders.org/contributors/view/francisco-laguna-correa/
  4. ^ Latin American Literature Today (LALT), "The New Latino Boom": http://www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/en/2018/november/new-latino-boom-naida-saavedra
  5. ^ Correa, Franco A. Laguna (December 21, 2022), "Brown/Brownness/Mestizaje", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.398, ISBN 978-0-19-020109-8, retrieved February 28, 2024
  6. ^ Website of the newspaper El Universal. "F. Laguna Correa gana premio de la ANLE" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 15, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  7. ^ Website of the newspaper La Jornada-Aguscalientes http://www.lja.mx/2013/09/inauguran-el-tercer-festival-de-las-artes-de-la-uaa/. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  8. ^ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "The 2016 Fuerza Awards".
  9. ^ Chicago Review of Books (April 19, 2017). "Read these 25 books for National Poetry Month".
  10. ^ El Informador (September 12, 2017). "Algunos libros de 2017".
  11. ^ Texas State University. "The New Latino Americanism" (public lecture), Department of English: MA in Rhetoric & Composition: https://marc.english.txstate.edu/welcome/special-event.html
  12. ^ "QS Latin American University Rankings 2018". October 12, 2017.
  13. ^ "Pensar en México sin México: del paradigma intelectual criollo nacional a la re-escritura subalterna de la migración femenina mexicana en Estados Unidos". UNC Carolina Digital Repository. March 20, 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
  14. ^ "HPU College of Arts and Sciences Welcomes New Faculty". September 29, 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
  15. ^ "DU Clarion". October 1, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
  16. ^ "Springer link". November 20, 2018. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02598-4_7. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
  17. ^ "NCState A Contracorriente". Spring 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
  18. ^ Cabrera, Delfina; Kripper, Denise (March 24, 2023). The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-83627-1.
  19. ^ Totten, Gary (December 27, 2023). A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-65253-3.
  20. ^ Laguna-Correa, Francisco (2018), Das, Amrita; Quinn-Sánchez, Kathryn; Shaul, Michele (eds.), "The Rise of Latino Americanism: Deterritorialization and Postnational Imagination in New Latino American Writers", Contemporary U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish: Straddling Identities, Literatures of the Americas, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 113–125, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02598-4_7, ISBN 978-3-030-02598-4, retrieved February 28, 2024
  21. ^ Laguna Correa, Francisco, Recuperando a "Perico" de Arcadio Zentella como un proyecto subalterno de liberación (in Spanish), A Contracorriente/NCSU
  22. ^ Zentella, Arcadio. Perico (in Spanish). La Novela Corta/Una Biblioteca Virtual.
  23. ^ Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (ORE): https://oxfordre.com/literature/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-398
  24. ^ Special Issue: https://popmec.hypotheses.org/4752
  25. ^ Public Books: https://www.publicbooks.org/ray-bradbury-on-war-recycling-and-artificial-intelligence/
  26. ^ JSTOR Daily: https://daily.jstor.org/ray-bradbury-on-war-recycling-and-artificial-intelligence/
  27. ^ Springer Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-02598-4_7
  28. ^ Bibliotecas de la H. Cámara de Diputados: https://bibliotecas.diputados.gob.mx/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=276337
  29. ^ Oxford University Press Blog (OUP Blog): https://blog.oup.com/2024/10/global-mobility-bordered-realities-and-ethnocultural-contact-zones/
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