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Francisco Benitez
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Areas of Study: Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Theory (particularly in Insular Southeast Asia), Diasporic and Transnational Literature and Culture, Southeast Asian Film and Literature, Philippine and Filipino American Studies
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin 2004
Francisco “Kiko” Benitez is assistant professor in Comparative Literature. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his BA from Cornell University where he graduated with honors. His research interests include the multiple and often conflicting formations of modern subjectivity and the nation-state in the literature and film of insular Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His current research is on the constructions of subjectivity in the Philippine awit and the Malay/Indonesian syair during the emergence of print-capitalism and nationalism in insular Southeast Asia.