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Liesbeth François serves as Lorna Close Lecturer in Spanish and Director of Studies at Murray Edwards College within the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. She specializes in Contemporary Latin American literary and cultural studies with institutional affiliation spanning both the central Faculty and her college.
Her research concentrates on spatial dynamics in narrative fiction, particularly examining urban environments and subterranean spaces in Mexican and Argentinian literature. Key thematic investigations include geological aesthetics, radical democracy, community collectivity, and the interplay between cityscapes and cultural production. Her methodological approach integrates literary analysis with visual culture studies and political theory.
Dr. François has established significant scholarly contributions through monographs exploring walking practices in Sergio Chejfec's fiction and subterranean representations in Mexico City literature. Her co-edited volumes address critical intersections of class identity, urban imaginaries, and everyday spatial experiences in contemporary Latin American contexts.
As an educator, she teaches undergraduate papers with Latin American components and supervises MPhil programmes in Latin American Studies and Literature, Culture and Thought. Her pedagogical focus bridges 20th-21st century literary production with contemporary visual art movements across the region.
