Shelley Ingram is assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her essays have appeared in such edited collections and journals as African American Review and Food & Foodways. She is currently editor of the Louisiana Folklore Miscellany and coauthor with Willow G. Mullins and Todd Richardson of Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies, published by University Press of Mississippi.
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