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Deborah
Kapchan
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Professor
of Performance Studies in The Tisch School of the Arts
Ph.D.
1992, Folklore and Folklife, University of
Pennsylvania
M.A. 1987, Linguistics, Ohio University
B.A. 1981, English, New York University
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Deborah Kapchan researches music and
narrative in the North African diaspora. She is the author of Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and
the Revoicing of Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press
1996), Traveling Spirit Masters:
Moroccan Music and Trance in the Global Marketplace (Wesleyan
University Press 2007), as well as numerous articles on expressive
culture, affect and embodiment (including most recently, "The Promise
of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco," American Anthropologist Vol. 110
(4) : 467-483, and "Learning to Listen: The Sound of Sufism in
France" The World of Music,
special issue, 2009). She is the editor (with Pauline Strong) of Theorizing the Hybrid, a special
issue of The Journal of American
Folklore, and has two manuscripts currently under review: Intangible Rights: Heritage and Human
Rights in Transit (university of Pennsylvania Press), and Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Moroccan
Contemporary Poetry (University of Texas Press). In her
teaching she focuses on the role of the public intellectual and the
craft of writing. She has been a Fulbright-Hays Fellow, a Guggenheim
Fellow, as well as a recipient of grants from the American Institute of
Maghrib Studies, the Social Science Research Council and the
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
e-mail: dk52@nyu.edu
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