Susan Roach, Ph.D.
College of Liberal Arts
Former director of Language and Literature and professor of English at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.
Mildred Saunders Adams Memorial Endowed Professorship in English
Biography
Dr. Roach received her PhD. in Anthropology (Folklore) from the University of Texas in 1986, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Arkansas. A North Louisiana native, she began documenting North Louisiana folk traditions in 1978 and has curated museum exhibitions of quilts and folk arts, published articles and monographs on regional folklife, and chaired the Louisiana Folklife Commission. She collaborated with other scholars to produce Delta Pieces, an online book documenting folk traditions in the delta parishes of northeast Louisiana.
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