Franco Laguna Correa

Laguna Correa 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. 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. 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.

Encyclopedia entry "Brown/Brownness/Mestizaje" (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2022). "Portraying Gender and Ethnicity in Black and White in Roma (2018) by Alfonso Cuarón" (PopMeC, 2021). "Ray Bradbury on War, Recycling, and Artificial Intelligence" (Public Books/JSTOR Daily, 2020). "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). 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). "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).

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