SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Director, English M.A. Program
• Advisor, English M.A.
• Advisor, Foreign Language Education
• Advisor, English Education (Jr./Sr.)
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Louisiana Folklore
• American Folklore
• Outlaw Legends
• Louisiana’s
Neutral Strip (No Man’s Land)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
• Member, Louisiana Folklore Society
SELECTED WORKS
• “Folklore of the Louisiana’s Neutral Strip: Outlaw Legend and Buried Treasure Stories” (2004)
• “Photographer as Folklorist: East Texas Cultural Landscape in the photographs of Keith Carter’s The Blue Man” (2004)
• “Guerilla Folklore: Teaching Folklore without a Department” (2003)
• “Cajun Country Mardi Gras: Forming Community Identity through the Mardi Gras Run” (2003)
Talking at the Backdoor: The Legend of Leather Britches Smith As a Representation of the Folklore and Folklife in Louisiana’s No Man’s Land (2001, Dissertation)
• “Leather Britches Smith and the Graybow War: A Community’s Outlaw Legend and Its Function” (2002)
• “Louisiana’s No Man’s Land and Its Outlaws” (2002)
• “Binding a Family: Examining Job’s Tears Rosaries as Religious Artifacts of Kinship” (2000)
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