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UL Lafayette Folklore Faculty

Graduate Faculty in Folklore:
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• Barry Jean Ancelet (Professor of Modern Languages and Head of the Department): Cajun and Creole folklore and music, Francophone literature, public folklore.
• Ray Brassieur (Assistant Professor of Anthropology): material folk culture, Cajun and Creole folklore.
• Marcia Gaudet (Professor of English and Head of the Department): folklore and literature, Louisiana folklore, folk narrative.
• John Laudun (Assistant Professor of English): folklore theory, narrative studies, folk art and material culture, African American studies.

Associated Faculty & Specializations:

• Mathe Allain (Modern Languages): Magreb culture and literature, Louisiana studies.
• Jim Anderson (English):Old English and Medieval studies.
• Carl Brasseaux (History): Louisiana history and culture.
• Robert Carriker (History): Public history.
• Jacques Henry (Sociology and Anthropology): Louisiana culture.
• Mark Honneger(English): sociolinguistics and second language acquisition.
• Claiborne Rice (English): cognitive linguistics and corpus theory.
• Patricia Rickels (Honors Program): folklore studies and African American literature.
• Dominique Ryon (Modern Languages): linguistics.