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Marcia Gaudet   Marcia Gaudet

Professor of English

Dr. Doris Meriwether/BORSF Professor University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Ph.D., English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1980

Dissertation: The Folklore and Customs of the West Bank of St. John the Baptist Parish
 

 
Publications (Books)
 
Editor, Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Forthcoming, 2003. (with James McDonald)

Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines: Conversations on the Writer's Craft. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990 (with Carl Wooton).

Tales from the Levee: Folklore of St. John the Baptist Parish. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, USL, 1984.
 
 
(Selected articles, essays, and booklets)
 
"Folk Catholicism in Cajun-Creole Louisiana," Louisiana Folklore Miscellany. 2002. In Press.

"’Mardi Gras Chic-a-la-pie’: Reasserting Creole Identity Through Festive Play," Journal of American Folklore. 114 (2001): 154-174.

"Storytelling and the Law: Variants of Justice in A Lesson Before Dying." Interdisciplinary Humanities. 17 (2000): 125-135.

"Robert Olen Butler’s ‘A Ghost Story’: Contemporary Legend as Literature."

Contemporary Legend. 2 n.s. (1999): 8-17.

"Talking with Ernest J. Gaines: Religion, Spirituality, Belief." Louisiana Literature. 16 (1999): 54-66.

"The World Down Side Up: Mardi Gras at Carville." Journal of American Folklore 111 (1998): 23-38.

"Ernest J. Gaines," in Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature. Bruce Rosenberg and Mary Ellen Brown, eds. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1998. 235-36.

"Ralph Ellison," in Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature. 1998. 182-84.

"Eudora Welty," in Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature. 1998. 699-701.

"The Cajuns and Their Culture," in Documenting Cultural Diversity in the Resurgent American South. Eds. Margaret Dittemore and Fred J. Hay. Pp. 77-89. Chicago: American Library Association. 1997.

Editor, American Folklore Society 1995 Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts. Arlington: American Folklore Society, 1995. (with Barry Jean Ancelet).

"Charlene Richard: Folk Veneration Among the Cajuns." Southern Folklore 51 (1994): 153-166.

"Black Women: Race, Gender, and Culture in Gaines's Fiction." In Critical Reflections on the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines, ed. David Estes. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1994. pp. 139-157.

"The Earthquake Angel: Contemporary Legend on the New Madrid Fault." Contemporary Legend: The Journal of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. 3 (1993): 121-131.

"Miss Jane and Personal Narrative: Ernest Gaines’ The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," Western Folklore 51 (1992): 23-32.

"The Failure of Traditional Religion in Ernest Gaines' Short Stories," Journal of the Short Story in English ,18 (1992): 81-89.

"Bouki, the Hyena, in Louisiana and African Tales," Journal of American Folklore, 105 (1992): 66-72.

"Telling It Slant: Personal Narrative, Tall Tales, and the Reality of Leprosy," Western Folklore, 49:3 (1990): 191-207.

"Christmas Bonfires in South Louisiana: Tradition and Innovation," Southern Folklore, 47:3 (1990): 195-206.

"Gaines' Fifteen Narrators: Narrative Style and Storytelling Technique in A Gathering of Old Men." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, 6:3 (1990): 15-22.

"The New Orleans King Cake in Southwestern Louisiana," Mid-America Folklore 17:2 (1989): 114-121.

"The Image of the Cajun in Literature," Journal of Popular Culture, 23:2 (1989): 77-88.

"Through the Hole in the Fence: Personal Narratives of Absconding From Carville." Fabula: Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung /Journal of Folktale Studies/Revue d'Etudes sur le Conte Populaire, 29 (1988): 354-364.
 
 
Exhibit Curated
 
Curator, "Ernest J. Gaines, 2000 Louisiana Writer of the Year," Exhibit at the State Library of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 2000.
 
Grants and Contracts
 
BORSF Graduate Fellowships in Folklore and Public History, Grant Administrator, 1999-2002, $68,000

UL Lafayette Summer Research Grant, 1992

Arkansas State University Summer Research Grants, 1989, 1990
 
Offices, Awards, and Honors (selected)
 
Dr. Doris Meriwether/BORSF Professor of English, UL Lafayette, 2002-05

Associate, Center for Cultural and Ecotourism, UL Lafayette, 2000-

Distinguished Professor Award, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1998

Louisiana Folklife Commission Member, 1994-2003; Vice-chair, 2001-2003

Modern Language Association (Executive Committee, Folklore and Literature, 1997-2001; Executive Committee, Anthropological Approaches Division-1992-96; Delegate Assembly Member, 1994-96)

American Folklore Society (AFS Annual Meeting Program Committee, Co-Chair, 1995 AFS Liaison to MLA, 1992-98)

South Central Modern Language Association (Chair of Folklore Section, 1993, 1987)

Louisiana Folklore Society (Editor, Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, 1995-99 President, 1992-93 and 84-85, Vice-president and Program Chairman, 1991-92)

Society for the Study of Southern Literature (Co-Chair of Local Arrangements, 2002)
 

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