Associate Professor of Spanish
![Francisco Plata](/media/sized-image-library/headshots-160-x-160/headshots-n-r/Plata_Francisco.jpg)
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
M.A., New Mexico State University
Licenciado, Universidad de Granada
Francisco Plata graduated in Spanish philology from his native Granada, Spain. He was a lecturer of Spanish in Orel, Russia, and later pursued graduate studies in New Mexico and Texas, where he received his Ph.D.
He is the author of two novels and a book of poetry. He has also published essays, stories, and poems in a variety of national and international journals, literary magazines, newspapers, and collective works.
He has taught at St. John Fisher University since 2009.