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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 |
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| Publications (Books) |
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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. |
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| (Selected articles, essays, and booklets) |
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"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. |
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| Exhibit Curated |
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| Curator, "Ernest J. Gaines, 2000 Louisiana Writer of the Year," Exhibit at the State Library of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 2000. |
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| Grants and Contracts |
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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 |
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| Offices, Awards, and Honors (selected) |
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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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