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Norma E. Cantú serves as Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she directs the doctoral program in English. She is the editor of a book series, Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Tradition, for Texas A&M University Press. She is a member of the board of trustees of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, and is Chair-Elect of the National Association of Chicana/o Studies. Author of the award-winning Canícula Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera, and co-editor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change, she is currently working on a novel tentatively titled Champú, or Hair Matters, and an ethnography of the Matachines de la Santa Cruz, a religious dance drama from Laredo, Texas.