Francisco Cantero Soriano is a scholar of Spanish literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. His research examines how the queer body manifests in lyric form, particularly in the literature of the Spanish Republican exile. Working at the intersection of poetics, embodiment, and exile studies, he explores how formal structures register displacement, historical violence, and bodily experience.

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He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Spanish literature, poetry, exile, gender, and cultural history. Outside academia, he enjoys graphic design, typography, theatre, museums, and cooking.