Marcia Gaudet
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.
Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco
Readings in Louisiana Culture
Ernest J. Gaines
Conversations
Collected interviews with the acclaimed author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson Before Dying
Second Line Rescue
Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita
How beleaguered citizens created their own salvation when their institutions failed
Out of the Shadow of Leprosy
The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family
A firsthand account of the trauma and impact on one family facing leprosy
Carville
Remembering Leprosy in America
Personal accounts of life in America’s last colony for sufferers of Hansen’s disease