Foreign Languages and Literatures - Colorado State University

Faculty Profile

Francisco Leal

Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis , 2007.

Licendiado en letras, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2000.

Assistant professor

My academic interests include contemporary Latin-American poetry and Cinema, post-dictatorial literature and criticism, and Marxist theory. My dissertation focused on how literary criticism enlightens our understanding of the relationship between aesthetics and politics, examining Chilean post-dictatorial criticism and fiction, such as poetry, films and novels.

My literary publications are:

Cortezas. Santiago, Tácitas, 2009

Naturalismo. Santiago, Cuarto Propio, 2006.

Insectos. Montevideo, Artefato, 2005.

Vecindario . Santiago, RIL, 2004.

For more information about my literary work, click here.

My teaching experience, as a graduate included all levels of the Spanish language. At the University of Missouri, Columbia I taught Advanced Spanish Composition, Introduction to Literature, and an upper level class of Contemporary Spanish American Culture and Civilization. At Colorado State University I teach Languages, Culture, and Latin-American poetry.

I was editor of the journal Vértebra

Recent Publications

“Alicia en el país de la sospecha. Apuntes sobre Las ciudades perdidas van al paraíso de Alicia Borinsky” en: Borinsky: tatuajes, tango y la escritura hologramática, de Buenos Aires , (Miriam Balboa ed), Editorial Nueva generación, 2008

“ Jersey city : fracciones como la parada de una mosca sobre una mano, en: Jersey City , Marcarena Urzúa, Editorial Fuga, 2009


	Faculty Profile Francisco Leal Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis , 2007. Licendiado en letras, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2000. Assistant professor My academic interests include contemporary Latin-American poetry and Cinema, post-dictatorial literature and criticism, and Marxist theory. My dissertation focused on how literary criticism enlightens our understanding of the relationship between aesthetics and politics, examining Chilean post-dictatorial criticism and fiction, such as poetry, films and novels. My literary publications are: Cortezas. Santiago, Tácitas, 2009 Naturalismo. Santiago, Cuarto Propio, 2006. Insectos. Montevideo, Artefato, 2005. Vecindario . Santiago, RIL, 2004. For more information about my literary work, click here. My teaching experience, as a graduate included all levels of the Spanish language. At the University of Missouri, Columbia I taught Advanced Spanish Composition, Introduction to Literature, and an upper level class of Contemporary Spanish American Culture and Civilization. At Colorado State University I teach Languages, Culture, and Latin-American poetry. I was editor of the journal Vértebra Recent Publications “Alicia en el país de la sospecha. Apuntes sobre Las ciudades perdidas van al paraíso de Alicia Borinsky” en: Borinsky: tatuajes, tango y la escritura hologramática, de Buenos Aires , (Miriam Balboa ed), Editorial Nueva generación, 2008 “ Jersey city : fracciones como la parada de una mosca sobre una mano, en: Jersey City , Marcarena Urzúa, Editorial Fuga, 2009