Marcia Gaudet is professor emerita of English at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and founding director of the Ernest J. Gaines Center. She is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society; author of Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America; and coeditor of Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita and Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
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