Education
This was followed by a few years at Berkeley, where she taught Spanish, learned Italian and studied Spanish Literature.
folklorist philologist professor collaborator
This was followed by a few years at Berkeley, where she taught Spanish, learned Italian and studied Spanish Literature.
She has been an Academic Numerary of the Mexican Language Academy since 1993. She is also a Doctor Honoris Causa at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). Frenk"s parents moved the family to Mexico in 1930.
In 1946, she spent some time at Bryn Mawr College on a scholarship, studying English Literature and Spanish Theater of the 16th Century.
After obtaining her Master of Arts, she returned home to study at the College of Mexico, where she was a professor and researcher from 1950 to 1980, except for a brief stay in Paris to attend classes by Marcel Bataillon. Beginning in 1958, she was the coordinator for a group of researchers who, between 1975 and 1985, produced the five volume Mexican Folk Songbook.
From 1986-1996, she was coordinator of the Center for Literary Studies at the Institute for Philological Research at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where she founded the magazine Literatura Mexicana. She is also an honorary President of the International Association of Hispanistas.
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She has been a professor at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México since 1966 where, in 2000, she founded the Revista de Literaturas Populares, which she still edits, and She is a member of the scientific committee on the Spanish magazine Paremia.