James Pancrazio |
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BiographyJames Pancrazio is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. His work has appeared in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Cuban Studies, Caribe, Hojas Universitarias, and Revista Iberoamericana. His book, entitled The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition (Bucknell University Press/Associated University Presses), is a study of the discourses that construct gender in Cuban culture. His areas of interest inlcude psychoanalysis, gender and gransgender performance, and Cuban histororiography. His most recent work focuses on 19th century transvestite Enriqueta Faber, who, while dressed as a man, completed a medical degree in France, participated in the Napoleonic Wars in Russia and Spain, received residency in Cuba, and eventually married another woman in the Catholic Church. | |