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Ph.D., Literature (Creative Writing Certificate), UT Dallas.
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M.A., Literature, UT Dallas.
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Ph.D. Candidate, Educational Policy & Planning, UT Austin (ABD).
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M.B.A., UT Austin, McCombs School — Kozmetsky Scholar.
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J.D., St. Mary’s Law School — Summa Cum Laude.
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B.A., Philosophy, University of the Incarnate Word — Cum Laude.
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Academic & Non-Fiction Publications
J.K. Franko publishes academic and non-fiction works under his legal name. Representative works include:
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Calvoz, R. “He do the Police in Different Voices + 1″ Journal of the T.S. Eliot Society (forthcoming 2026).
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Calvoz, R. “The Ghost in ‘The Library of Babel’: Borges Defends Meaning and Authorial Intention.” 59 Variaciones Borges 89, 2025.
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Calvoz, R., Davis, B. W., & Gooden, M. A. (2014). Constitutional implications of school punishment for cyber bullying. Cardozo Law Review de Novo, 104-112.
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Calvoz, R., Davis, B. W., & Gooden, M.A. (2013). Cyber bullying and free speech: Striking an age-appropriate balance. Cleveland State Law Review, 61(2), 358-389.
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Calvoz, R. Bell, C., Spikes, D. & Lippa A.P. (2013). Student-to-Student Sexual Harassment. In S.E. Eckes, J.F. Mead, L.R. McNeal, M.S. Torres, Jr., M.A. Gooden (Eds.), The Principal’s Legal Handbook (5th Ed.). Ohio: Education Law Association.
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Calvoz Rodriguez, R. (2000). The end of law. Bleak House Publishing.
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Calvoz Rodriguez, R. (1992). God is dead: Killed by fifty years of establishment clause jurisprudence. St. Mary’s Law Journal, 23, 1155-1184. (recognized on the National Law Journal’s “Worth Reading List”).
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Sine Qua Non
a Journal of New Romanticism
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