Education
Ph. D. in Anthropology (Folklore), Supporting
work
(minor): English,
Ph. A. in English, with a concentration in
poetry,
M. A. in English,
B. A. in English, Magna cum laude, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, La., May 1969.
Publications: Monographs and Articles in Books and Periodicals (Selected)
Louisiana Quilt Documentation
Project
<www.louisianafolklife.org/quilts>. A searchable database
with over
2000 quilts and includes online essays “Documenting Quilts,” “Project
History,” “About Quilts,” “Exhibiting Quilts,” and Feature essays
“African American Quilters in Louisiana: A Photographic Essay.” Posted
May
2006.
Review of Coming Home,
Western
Folklore, 65:3 (Summer 2006).
Our Hats, Our Crowns: An
Exhibition of Community Historic
and Contemporary Hats,
virtual exhibition, Lincoln Parish
<www.latech.edu/tech/rural/folklife/index.php?section=28>,
Claiborne
Parish, <www.latech.edu/tech/rural/folklife/index.php?section=33>
Posted Nov. 2006.
“In the Wake of the
Hurricanes Research Coalition: Development
and Implementation.”
“In the Wake of the Hurricanes:
Introduction and Fieldwork
Forms.” (Co-authored with Shana Walton). Online publication:
<www.louisianafolklife.org/katrina.html>, posted October
2005.
“Making Music: The Art of
Hand-built Stringed Instruments.”
“Places They Remember:
Clementine Hunter and Sarah
Albritton.” (co-authored with Peter Jones). In
“Quilts as Women’s Documents:
The Louisiana Quilt Documentation
Project” (co-authored with Laura Westbrook). In
"The Threads of Tradition:
Quilts as Multi-Valent
Symbols” (co-authored with F. A. deCaro and Rosan Jordan). In Re-Situating
Folklore: Folk Contexts and 20th Century Literature and Art.
On My Way: The
Arts of Sarah Albritton
(104-page
color exhibition catalog).
"West of the Ouachita: Conserving
the Heritage of the Pine Hills and
"Quilting." In Encyclopedia of Folklore
and Literature. Ed. Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce Rosenberg.
"`Willing to Take a Risk': Working in the
Delta." In The Festival of American Folklife Program Book. Washington,
D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1997. 21-25. Reprinted in 1997
"Quilting." In Encyclopedia of Feminist
Literary Theory. Ed. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace.
"Sarah Albritton:
Memory and Vision: The Paintings
of Sarah Albritton." Co-authored with Peter Jones.
"`Take Me to the Water':
"Willing to Take a Risk":
The Folklore of Cropdusting."
Co-authored with Janet Ryland. 1994
"The Delta Folklife Project:
An Overview." Co-authored with H.
F. Gregory and Maida
Owens. 1994
"African American Quiltmakers in
"The Divine Call:
Primitive Baptist Preachers of
"`You Gotta Go Crazy First Before You Can Be
a
Minister': Accessing a Speaking Role in the
"`Keep Your Mind and Your Hands Busy':
Expressive
Dimensions of the Lone Quilter."
"The Journey of David Allen: Transformations
through Public Folklore." In Public
Folklore. Ed. Robert Baron and Nicholas Spitzer.
Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution,
1992. 159-182.
Photographs of
Review of The
Art of Queena Stovall: Images of Country
Life, by Claudine Weatherford, Southern Folklore Quarterly 47.1 (1989): 86-88.
"Quilts."
In Decorative Arts and Household Furnishings In
"Quilting, Anglo-American." In Encyclopedia
of Southern Culture. Ed. C. R. Wilson and W. Ferris.
Chapel Hill:
"Regional Folklife of
"
"The `Kinship Quilt': An
Ethnographic Semiotic Analysis of a
Quilting Bee." In Women's
Folklore, Women's Culture. Ed. Rosan
Jordan and Susan Kalcik.
"Regional Folklife of
Gifts from the Hills:
North
"The
Patchwork Quilts:
"Quiltmaking in
Professional Presentations:
Refereed Papers at National and Regional
Conferences
“Re-presenting the Quilts
of African Americans in the
South.” Southern Quilt Conference.
“In the Wake of the Hurricanes
Research Coalition,” Plenary
Address, Oral History Association annual meeting,
“Developing and Implementing a
Research Coalition” on Forum
In the Wake of the Hurricanes III: Responses from the
“Re-presenting
the Quilts of African Americans in
“Folklorist-Teacher Partnerships:
Implementing
“Southern Folk Culture vs. Popular Culture in
Alice
Walker’s “Everyday Use,” American Culture Association/Popular Culture
Association Conference,
“Food and Power in the Personal Narratives of
an
African-American Cook.” American Folklore Society Conference,
“Making the Biggest Tin Man; A Folk
Artist-Folklorist’s Partnership.” American Folklore Society Conference,
“Developing Local/Regional Folk Arts
Programs” Forum
Presentation, American Folklore Society Conference,
“
"Folk Artists and Folklorists: On the Air, On
the
Road, and at Home." paper presented
at the American Folklore Society Conference,
"Remembering and Re-presenting Narrative in
the
Louisiana Storytelling Project," paper presented at the American
Folklore
Society Conference, Austin, Tx., October 1997.
"Representing A Life through Visual and
Verbal
Narratives," paper presented at the American Folklore Society
Conference,
"The
"Regional Folklore in Alice Walker's
`Everyday
Use,'" paper presented at the American Folklore Society Conference,
"Reading the Writing and the Walls: An Intertextual Study of a `Defaced'
Dogtrot," paper presented at the American Folklore Society Conference,
"Ritual Discourse in Social Drama: Susan Glaspell's `A Jury of Her Peers,'"
paper presented at the South Central Modern Language Association
meeting,
October 16, 1993.
"`Things Begun--and Not Finished': Liminality
in
Susan Glaspell's `A Jury of Her
Peers.'" paper presented at the Modern Language Association Convention,
"`Seeing Through a Thing to Something Else': Susan Glaspell's `A
Jury of Her Peers' as Social Drama,"
paper presented at the American Folklore Society Conference,
"The Symbolic Language of Quilts in Women's
Fiction," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Philological
Association of Louisiana,
"Quilt as Multivalent Boundary in Women's
Fiction," paper presented at the American Folklore Society Conference,
"`You Gotta Go Crazy First Before You Can Be
a
Minister': Accessing a Speaking Role in the
"Options of the Bricoleur:
Toward a Grammar of Quiltmaking," paper
presented at the American Folklore Conference,
"Effects of Public Presentation on the Art of
Walking Stick Carver: The Journey of
David Allen," paper presented at the American Folklore Conference,
"For Fancy and `Everyday Use': Quilt Function
in
North Louisiana," paper presented at the American Folklore Society
Conference,
"Ethnoaesthetics of Anglo-and Afro-American
Quilters," paper presented at the American Folklore Society Conference,
"`Keep Your Mind and Your Hands Busy': Expressive Dimensions of the Lone
Quilter," paper presented at the American Folklore Society Conference,
"The Quilting Bee: An
Interrelationship of Folk Art and Folk
speech," paper presented at the American Folklore Society Conference,
Philadelphia, Pa., November 1976; abridged version presented at
Louisiana Folklore
Society Conference, New Orleans, October 1975.
"The Comfort of `The Word':
A Metacommunicative Analysis of Funeral
Ritual," paper presented at the American Folklore Society Conference,
Exhibitions Curated
Assisted with curation of Shreveport Regional
Arts
Council’ exhibition Folk Art Is, Artspace,
Assisted with Claiborne Parish Jubilee Quilt
Show,
Homer,
Curator (with Peter Jones), Selections
from On My
Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton. Exhibition at Goodrich Gallery, First United
Curator (with Peter Jones), On My Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton.
A Touring Exhibition with the following
itinerary: Masur Museum, Monroe, August 16-Sept 13, 1998; LSU Museum of
Art,
Baton Rouge, Sept. 20-Nov. 8; La. State Museum, Presbytere, New
Orleans, Dec.
20-April 5, 1999; African American Museum, Dallas, Tx., June 11-Aug.
29, 1999;
Meadows Museum, Centenary College, Shreveport, Sept. 11-Oct. 31, 1999. Received
Curator, Folklife in the Louisiana Delta (traveling exhibition), Sponsored by Masur Museum, Monroe, La., features 25 11 x 14" black and white photographs with interpretive text (selected from Folklife in the Creole State), 1996, fall 1998.