David Francis serves as Dean of Grace Hopper College and teaches in the Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. He is a poet, translator, and scholar focusing on contemporary Latin American literature, film, and border studies. His scholarly work has been published in Performance Research, The Latin Americanist, Textos Híbridos, and Musée Magazine. His translations or poems have appeared in Inventory, The FSG Book of 20th-Century Latin American Poetry, Guernica, Exchanges, The Brooklyn Rail, Poetry Daily, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere. His translation of Severo Sarduy's poetry, Footwork (2021, Circumference Books), is the first collection of the Cuban author’s poems in English. He received a Fulbright fellowship to translate the poetry of Colombian writer José Asunción Silva into English, and is currently translating a collection of poems by the Cuban author Jorge Olivera Castillo and another by poets from northern Mexico. Francis holds an M.F.A. in poetry writing from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University.