Professor of Performance Studies
Ph.D. 1992 (Folklore and Folklife) University of Pennsylvania; M.A. 1987 (Linguistics) Ohio University; B.A. 1981 (English) New York University

Research Interests:

Narrative, poetics, feminist theory, music, aesthetics, North Africa and the Middle East.

Selected Works:

Dr. Kapchan was Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, directing the Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology. A recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Hays Fellowshipfor her project "Poetic Justice: Translating Art and Ideology in Morocco, her books include Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition (Pennsylvania, 1996), and a book on the Moroccan Gnawa.

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