Norma Elia Cantú
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Cantú at the 2016 Texas Film Festival
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January 3, 1947 Nuevo Laredo |
| Occupation | Writer, Prpfessor |
| Ethnicity | Hispanic |
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Texas A&M International University Texas A&M University–Kingsville University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
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Norma Elia Cantú (born January 3, 1947) is a Chicana postmodernist writer and the Murchison Professor in the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
She was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, to Florentino Cantú Vargas and the former Virginia Ramón Becerra. She was reared in Laredo in Webb County, Texas, and attended public schools there.
Cantú received her A.A. degree from Laredo Community College in 1970. She received her bachelor of science degree in English and political science from Texas A&I University at Laredo, now Texas A&M International University in Laredo, from which she graduated summa cum laude in 1973. She received her master of science degree in English with a minor in political science from Texas A&I University‑Kingsville in 1976 and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1982.
She has been on the faculty of the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 2016, she was named Murchison Professor in the Humanities at Trinity University.
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