Francisco Delgado

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Assistant Professor
English

EMAIL: fdelgado@bmcc.cuny.edu

Office: N-772

Office Hours:

Phone: +1 (212) 220-8346

Francisco Delgado is a writer and teacher based out of Queens, NY. His research focuses on Native American/Indigenous literatures and can be found in Memory Studies, Studies in the Novel, Transmotion, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College (TETYC). He is a proud CHamoru and, through his maternal grandmother, Tonawanda Band of Seneca. His chapbook of flash fiction / prose poems, Adolescence, Secondhand was published by Honeysuckle Press in 2018.

He currently serves on the board of the MLA forum on Indigenous Literatures of the US and Canada, as well as on the board of CUNY’s Asian American and Asian Research Institute.

(Photo by Riordan Delgado)

Expertise

Native American and Indigenous Literatures, Asian American Literatures, Literatures of the Pacific

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Stony Brook University, English, 2017
  • M.A. CUNY Brooklyn College, English, 2009
  • B.A. SUNY New Paltz, English/Creative Writing, 2005

Courses Taught

ENG 101 (English Composition)

Research and Projects

My most recent scholarship examines how Indigenous persons and communities grapple with the ongoing influence of the U.S. military: what factors explain the high rate of enlistment within Native communities? How does enlistment impact relationships with those back home? And, relatedly, what alternative forms of community does military enlistment make possible?

I’m most interested works of art that express of Native/Indigenous hope. And show what Native/Indigenous joy looks like.

I’m also learning the Onöndowa’ga:’ Gawë:no׳, the traditional language of the Seneca of upstate New York. This is my Indigenous language through my maternal grandmother who was adopted out of her community as a young child. I chronicle my language learning at LearningSeneca.

Chances are, whenever you’re reading this, I’m working on an article about teaching, or a short story, or a poem, and endlessly on a novel.

Publications

Creative Work:

Literary Scholarship (Peer-Reviewed Journals):

  • “Living in Good Relations: On Campus and Off.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 50. no. 3, March 2023, pp. 303-311.
  • ““If I ever get out of here (if we ever get out of here):” Modeling “the Good Mind” in Eric Gansworth’s If I Ever Get Out of Here. In a Special Issue of Studies In the Novel on YA Indigenous Literature  (Fall 2022).
  • Sordid Pasts, Indigenous Futures: Necropolitics and Survivance in Louis OwensBone Game.” Transmotion, vol. 6, no. 2, 14 Dec. 2020. https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/817/1877, pp. 43 – 64.
  • Remade: Sovereign: Decolonizing Guam in an Age of Environmental Anxiety.” Memory Studies, 16 Dec. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698019894690.
  • “Trespassing the U.S.-Mexico Border in Silko’s Almanac of the Dead and Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange“, The CEA Critic, vol. 79, no. 2, , 2017, pp. 149-166.
  • “The Dystopian/Utopian Aspects of Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange“,Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice, vol. 8, no. 2, 2016, pp. 30-39.
  • “Neither Japanese Nor American: Identity and Citizenship in John Okada’s No-No Boy“, Trespassing Journal, vol. 1, 2012, http://trespassingjournal.org/?page_id=149.

Literary Scholarship (Edited Collections):

  • “A Model of Relational Learning and Knowledge Production: Using Podcasts in a Writing Intensive Native American/Indigenous Literatures Course.” Beyond the Traditional Essay: Increasing Student Agency in a Diverse Classroom with Nondisposable Assignments, edited by Melissa Ryan and Kerry Kautzmann, Vernon Press, 2022, pp. 1 – 16.
  • “Learning Seneca: A Case Study on Digital Presentations of North American Indigenous Languages.” The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanties, edited by Anne Schwan and Tara Thomson, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, pp. 297-313.

Book Reviews:

  • Book Review of Otherwise, Revolution!: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead by Rebecca Tillett. Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, 2018, pp. 185-86.
  • Book Review of Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, And Immigration Politics in The Age of Security by Anna Sampaio, American Studies, vol. 56, no. A?, 2018, pp. 123-124.
  • Book Review of Full Metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead, Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, 2018, pp. 192-193.

Honors, Awards and Affiliations

  • PSC-CUNY Travel Grant: 2022, 2023
  • Nominated for the BMCC Distinguished Teaching Award, 2021
  • Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellowship
  • MLA Connected Academics Proseminar Fellowship
  • President’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students (Stony Brook University)

Additional Information

In Spring 2021, I created ENG 329: Native American/Indigenous Literatures, the only course in the BMCC Course Catalog that focuses primarily on the Literatures of Native North America and the Pacific.

Since Summer 2022, I have been collaborating with colleagues across CUNY, as well as members of the American Indian Community House, working towards creating more Native Studies courses in CUNY curricula.