Francisco Delgado

Francisco Delgado is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY. Delgado is a proud CHamoru and, through his maternal grandmother, a member of the Tonawanda Band of Seneca. His scholarship can be found in Transmotion, Memory Studies, and The CEA Critic, and in the forthcoming Teaching English in the Two-Year College, and special issue of Studies In the Novel on Indigenous YA Literature. He resides in Queens, NY with his wife and their son.

Where CHamoru Identity Continues: The Decolonial Poetics of the CHamoru Diaspora in California

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Prof. Francisco Delgado’s current project examines how Chamorro poets reimagine the landscape of California as an extension of their home island. In particular, through a careful reading of works by Chamorro poets like Clarissa Mendiola and Lehua Taitano, both of whom are currently based out of California, he argues that the nature of Chamorro identity and community is as fluid and vast as the Pacific Ocean itself.

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