Peter Franks

Peter Franks is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Denver, where he has been employed since 2017. Prior to this, he taught writing and literature courses at East Carolina University and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

• Courses taught include Core Composition, Writing in the Disciplines, Southern Literature, Major American Authors, and Native American Literature.

His research interests focus on 20th/21st Century American Literature, Modernism and Race, and Southern Literature. He is affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and contributes to the university's writing and literature curriculum.