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Room 618, Sproul Hall
UC Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

(530) 752-0835 Undergrad phone
(530) 752-5799 Grad phone
(530) 752-8630 fax

 
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Francisco X. Alarcón

Francisco Alarcon

Lecturer
MA and ABD, Stanford University

Email: fjalarcon@ucdavis.edu
Office: 604 Sproul Hall
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Research Areas

His main areas of research are teaching Spanish to Native Speakers, Chicano literature and culture, and the Mexican narrative. He coordinates the Spanish for Native Speakers' Program and is also a member of the Board of Directors of La Raza/Galería Posada in Sacramento.

Recent Publications

Author of nine volumes of poetry, including Body in Flames/Cuerpo en llamas (1990), De Aztec oscuro/Of Dark Love (1991) and Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation (1992). He has published two textbooks for teaching Spanish at the college and high school levels: Mundo 21 and Pasaporte al Mundo 21 (D.C. Heath).

Honors and Awards

He is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the 1993 American Book Award, the 1993 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award and the 1994 Chicano Literary Prize.

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