James J Pancrazio
Professor
Lang Literatures & Cultures
Office
Stevenson Hall - STV 243
Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday 9:00-10:50
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- About
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Biography
Originally from Central Illinois. Grew up in the City of Abraham Lincoln. Left home for Mexico in 1985 and has been on an adventure ever since.
Current Courses
125.001Literary Narrative: Latin American Fiction
427.001Spanish American Literature: 19th Century to Present Day
327.001Spanish American Literature:Late 19th Century To Present Day
112.001Beginning Spanish
Teaching Interests & Areas
Latin American Literature and Culture Cuban Literature and Culture Latin American Essay
Research Interests & Areas
Narrative Studies, Creative Writing, Short Fiction Cuban literature and Culture Novelist Alejo Carpentier Enriqueta Faber Sexuality and Psychoanalysis Intersections of History, Culture and Economics
Ph D Latin American Literature
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
MA Spanish and Latin American Literatures
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Other Spanish language and literature
Universidad Complutense
Madrid, Spain
Other Spanish language
Universidad Internacional
Cuernavaca, Mexico
BA History
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
Other Spanish language
Universidad Internacional
Cuernavaca, Mexico
Other Spanish language
Universidad Iberoamericana
Mexico City, Federal District
Teacher Quality Enhancement Course Development Grant
Chicago Teacher Pipeline
2006
University Research Grant
College of Arts and Sciences
2006
Bilingual Professional Development
College of Education
2000
University Research Grant
College of Arts and Sciences
2000
University Research Grant
College of Arts and Sciences
1999
Small Research Grant
College of Arts and Sciences
1998
Travel Grant
Center for the Advancement of Teaching
1997
Summer Research Grant
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
1996
Tinker Research Grant
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies U of I
1994
Book Review
Camacho, Jorge. Etnografía, política y poder a finales del siglo XIX: José Martí y la cuestión indígena. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 256pp. Caribe, 16.1-2 (2013-2014): 166-171.
Martí, la justicia infinita. Notas sobre ética y otredad en la escritura martiana (1875-1894). Francisco Morán. Madrid: Verbum, 2014. 740 págs. Caribe, 15.2. (2012-2013) 135-140.
Pancrazio, J. Book Review of Jerome Branche's Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Revista Iberoamericana 77.251 (2011): 251-253.
Pancrazio, J. Book Review of Gutiérrez, Mariela A. An Ethnological Interpretation of the Afro-Cuban World of Lydia Cabrera (Lewiston: Edwin Mullen Press). Bulletin of Spanish Studies 87.6 (2010): 881-883.
Pancrazio, J. Book Review of Birkenmaier, Anke. Alejo Carpentier y la cultura surrealista en América Latina (Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2006).. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 86 (2009): 139-140.
Book, Authored
Pancrazio, J. Cuba: Arte y Literatura desde el exilio. James J. Pancrazio and Grace Piney Roche (EDs). Legua Editorial (2011): 329.
Pancrazio, J. Enriqueta Faber: Travestismo, documentos e historia. Editorial Verbum (2009): 170.
Pancrazio, J. The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and The Cuban Tradition. Bucknell University Press (2004): 296.
Book, Chapter
Pancrazio, J. El incesto y el placer de la transculturación.. María Luisa Ochoa (EDs), ¡Ay, qué rico! El sexo en la cultura y la literatura cubana. Editorial Aduana Vieja (2005): 97-111.
Pancrazio, J. Fashioning Cuban Culture: Transvestism and Transculturation. Regina Root (EDs), Latin American Fashion Reader. Berg Publications (2005): 232-246.
Pancrazio, J. Más allá de la confesión y la culpabilidad. Grace Giselle Piney Roche (EDs), Bienvenidos a la transición. Editorial Aduana Vieja (2005): 277-288.
Pancrazio, J. We're all Guilty: Lo Cubano in the Confession. Eva Bueno and Terry Ceasar (EDs), Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture. University of Pittsburgh Press (2005): 129-141.
Conference Proceeding
Pancrazio, J. El sujeto pervertido y las fantasías ideológicas en 'Semejante a la noche' de Alejo Carpentier. James J. Pancrazio and Gracy Piney Roche (EDs), Cuba: arte y literatura en exilio. Legua Editorial (2011): 75-86.
Pancrazio, J. Bodily Terrain and the Borders of Identity in Latin America. Diáspora 6.6 (1997): 48-65.
Pancrazio, J. Ética y estética: el cuerpo en Sóngoro cosongo y otros poemas tempranos de Nicolás Guillén. Memorias de la conferencia internacional sobre la obra de Nicolás Guillén. Fundación Nicolás Guillón (1995): NP.
Instructor's Manual
Pancrazio, J. Columbus: Beyond the Myth: Teaching the Encounter of Two Worlds in High School and College Classrooms. Workshop for Social Studies and Foreign Language Teachers: Second Annual Summer Program on International Affairs (1994): 70.
Journal Article
Pancrazio, J. Enrollment Sustainability in Foreign Languages Programs. Looney, Dennis (EDs). ADFL Bulletin 43.3 (2017)
Pancrazio, J. Reading History, Psychology and Biography: Recent Approaches to José Martí. Gutierrez-Coto, Amaury F. (EDs). Caribe 18.1-2 (2017): 8-31.
Transvestism in José Ramón Brene’s Escándalo en la Trapa. Caribe. 16.1-2 (2013-14): 7-23.
Pancrazio, J. “Reescritura, invención y plagio: Enriqueta Faber y la escritura del travestismo”. La Habana Elegante 56.20 (2014)
Pancrazio, J. Enriqueta Faber and Writing the Half Truths of Transvestism. Mandorla 12 (2009): 177-191.
Translation
Flores, Juan Carlos. "Grasshopper" Trans. Kristin Dykstra and James J. Pancrazio. Circumference: Poetry in Translation. 1.2 (2004): 26. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Vintage-Random House, 1988. Print.
Presentations
Hildebrandt, S., Edwards, L., Pancrazio, J.J. (2020, January 10). Getting to know the Oral Proficiency Interview: Translating it to Student-Ease. Teaching and Learning Symposium - Intentional Technologies: Reclaiming Our Spaces, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
Going Global. 2017 Teaching and Learning Symposium. CTLT Illinois State University. (2017)
Structure, Style and Meaning in Martí’s Versos libres. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. (2017)
Literature to increase proficiency in Spanish language. 2016 Teaching & Learning Symposium. Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. (2016)
The Perspective of an Area Studies Specialist. Internationalization of Illinois State University. The Office of International Studies and Programs. (2016)
Martí’s Critical Labyrinth: Recent Bibliography on José Martí. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky at Lexington. (2015)
Rewriting, Invention, and Plagiarism: the Case of Enriqueta Faber, and the writing of transvestism. Latin American and Latino/a Studies Brown Bag Series. ISU LASL. (2015)
Transvestism in José Ramón Brene's Escándalo en la Trapa. 4th International Conference on Carribean Studies. Marquette University. (2014)
Sexualizing the Nation: Miguel de Carrión and the Cuban Republic. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky. (2011)
La persistencia del mito: El Che y la temporalidad. Cuban Research Institute. Florida International University. (2010)
Grants & Contracts
Teaching Innovations Grant. Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Illinois State University. (2019)
Internationalize Your Major Grant. Office of International Studies and Programs. Illinois State University. (2018)