David Francis

  • Current Title: Ph.D. Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
    • Secondary Field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
  • General Life Plan: Research, Teach, Write, Translate
  • Degrees: B.A. in Spanish, Poetry Writing and English Literature, University of Virginia; M.A. in Spanish, University of Virginia; M.F.A. in Poetry Writing, Columbia University; A.M. in Romance Langauges and Literatures, Harvard University
  • Fellowships, Grants, Awards: Fulbright Fellowship; Presidential Fellowship; Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grant; Harvard Predissertation Fellowship (Paris); Harvard Traveling Fellowship (Mexico City); Nancy Clark Smith Fellowship (Rio de Janeiro); Harvard Open Gate Fellowship; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Travel Grant; Departmental Research Fellowship, Columbia University School of the Arts; Harcourt’s Drenka Willen Prize for Poetry in Translation (Runner-up); Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard’s Derek Bok Center
  • Places Traveled: Latin America; Caribbean; Europe; Lebanon; Semester at Sea in the Mediterranean (including Bulgaria, Egypt, Morocco, and Turkey)
  • Professional Memberships: MLA