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Women and Gender Studies

Women's and Gender Studies Faculty

 James Pancrazio

 

Department Affiliation

Women's Studies, Affiliated Faculty

Contact Information

College Of Arts & Science
Email @ilstu.edu : jjpancr
Phone : (309) 438-3764
Mailing Address : Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761

 

Biography

James 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.

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