Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

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#3786

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#6189

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#1747

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Philology

#281

World Rank

#564

Historical Rank

#70

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Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert's Degrees

Bachelors Comparative Literature University of Puerto Rico

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According to Wikipedia, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert is a Puerto Rican academic who specializes in research of the Caribbean. She holds the Sarah Tod Fitz Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair at Vassar College. Early life and education Lizabeth Paravisini was born in 1953 in Puerto Rico to Virgenmina and Domingo Paravisini. She grew up in Puerto Rico and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras in 1973 in comparative literature. Continuing her education, she moved to New York City and completed a Master of Arts degree in 1976 at New York University. Paravisini furthered her post-graduate education at New York University, earning a Master of Philosophy in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1982. She married Gordon Gebert in 1988, a former child actor, who is a professor of architecture at City College of New York. They have one son, and she is stepmother to Gebert's two daughters from his first marriage.

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Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert's Published Works

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Published Works

Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo (2011) (155)
Colonial and postcolonial Gothic (2002) (34)
Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean. (1998) (33)
Jamaica Kincaid: A Critical Companion (1999) (28)
Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean (1998) (28)
The Haitian Revolution in Interstices and Shadows: A Re-reading of Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World (2004) (26)
Healing cultures : art and religion as curative practices in the Caribbean and its diaspora (2001) (19)
Women at sea : travel writing and the margins of Caribbean discourse (2000) (16)
The “Children of the Sea” Uncovering Images of the Botpippel Experience in Caribbean Art and Literature (2008) (15)
Literature of the Caribbean (2008) (12)
Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in Caribbean Literatures (2011) (10)
Allotropes (2000) (9)
Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life (1996) (9)
FEMINISM, RACE, AND DIFFERENCE IN THE WORKS OF (1992) (8)
Commonplaces (2000) (7)
The Home-Grown Roots of Caribbean Women's Movements (2009) (6)
Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women (1991) (5)
Creole Religions of the Caribbean (2020) (5)
Caribbean women novelists : an annotated critical bibliography (1994) (5)
THE WHITE WITCH OF ROSEHALL AND THE LEGITIMACY OF FEMALE POWER IN THE CARIBBEAN PLANTATION (2016) (4)
Women at Sea (2001) (4)
Cross-Dressing on the Margins of Empire (2001) (4)
Pleasure in the word : erotic writings by Latin American women (1994) (3)
Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures (2008) (3)
A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee (2007) (3)
From Ire to Irony (1994) (3)
Bagasse: Caribbean Art and the Debris of the Sugar Plantation (2015) (2)
Caribbean literature in Spanish (2000) (2)
Maria Sibylla Merian: The Dawn of Field Ecology in the Forests of Suriname, 1699–1701 (2012) (2)
Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam. (1993) (2)
Writers Playin' Mas': Carnival and the Grotesque in the Contemporary Caribbean Novel (1997) (2)
"Beyond Miranda's Meanings": Contemporary Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Women's Literatures (1995) (2)
Caribbean Utopias and Dystopias : The Emergence of the Environmental (2010) (1)
Oriental imprisonments. Habaneras as seen by nineteenth century women travel writers (1998) (1)
‘American’ Landscapes and Erasures: Frederic Church’s The Vale of St. Thomas and the Recovery of History in Landscape Painting (2009) (1)
Gade nan mizè-a m tonbe: Vodou, the 2010 Earthquake, and Haiti’s Environmental Catastrophe (2016) (1)
Review of Puerto Rico Syllabus: Essential Tools for Critical Thinking about the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis (2019) (1)
Endangered Species Caribbean Ecology and the Discourse of the Nation (2008) (1)
Unchained Tales: Women Prose Writers from the Hispanic Caribbean in the 1990s (2003) (1)
Corinne, Amiable Girl (1994) (1)
Sa c red For m s: Ritu a l, Rep r es e nt at ion, and t he Body i n H aitian Pa intin g (2009) (0)
In the Mountain Lies the Treasure: (A Mirage) (2000) (0)
POETRY IN REVIEW (2018) (0)
Creole Religions of the Caribbean, Third (2022) (0)
Writers Playin' Mas' (1997) (0)
Females and Torments (2000) (0)
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: Race, Colonial Power and The Absence of Sisterhood (2002) (0)
Caribbean Archipelagos and Mainlands (2021) (0)
Review Of "Creole Religions Of The Caribbean: An Introduction From Vodou And Santeria To Obeah And Espiritismo" By M.F. Olmos And L. Paravisini-Gebert (2016) (0)
The Consciousness of Transit: An Interview with Alexis Gómez Rosa (2000) (0)
Pleasure and Power (1995) (0)
The Ghost of El Conde Street (2000) (0)
Caribbean Environmentalisms : Rediscovering Agrarian Cultures in Endangered Ecologies (2008) (0)
The Arts, Environmental Justice, and the Ecological Crisis (2020) (0)
Milagros, Mercurio Street (1994) (0)
Eyes of Sea and Sky (1994) (0)
The Port of Santo Domingo: Tidal Debris, Metal Pollution, and the Perils of Poverty where the Caribbean Meets the Ozama (2020) (0)
Temptations (2000) (0)
Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1998) (0)
Wicked Weeds: A Zombie Novel, by Pedro Cabiya (2018) (0)
Who Writes for the Trees?: Wide Sargasso Sea, the Dominican Forest, and Its Parrots (2020) (0)
The Caribbean’s agonizing seashores (2017) (0)
Caribbean Women Novelists (1993) (0)
Allotropes: The Short Stories Of Ángela Hernández Núñez (2000) (0)
Female Intuition (2000) (0)
Eva's Obsession (2000) (0)
“Soi-Disant Columbuses”: The Discovery of Dominica’s Boiling Lake and the Commodification of Knowledge in Colonial Societies (2008) (0)
Mambrú Did not Go to War (2000) (0)
Patterns of Dominance ~ in Puerto Rican Literature : A Historical Overview (0)
Liliane's Sunday (1994) (0)
The Ghost and the Darkness (2017) (0)
An Interview with Don Juan Bosch (1994) (0)
Remaking a Lost Harmony: Stories from the Hispanic Caribbean (1996) (0)
The Rival to the Rio Grande of Loiza: An Interview with Juan Isidro Jimenes Grullon (1994) (0)
The ecocritical turn and the study of early colonial societies in the CaribbeanOf dogs, rivers, and the environmental humanities (2020) (0)

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