Shelley Ingram

Professor of English

PhD., University of Missouri, 2011

Office: Griffin 266
Phone: 337-482-5468
E-mail: singram@louisiana.edu

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Teaching and Research Areas

Folklore, twentieth and twenty-first century US literature, literature of the US South, race and ethnic studies, food and foodways, weatherlore, ghostlore.

Notable

Shelley Ingram's research focuses primarily on the relationship between folklore and literature, including its connections to ethnography and race, folk narrative, food, and audience. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on both folklore and literature, exploring such topics as the American gothic, popular culture and fandom, food and food culture, and ghostlore. She has written on the literature of Shirley Jackson, Gloria Naylor, Harry Crews, and Randall Kenan, among others, with essays appearing in edited collections and in journals such as African American Review, Food & Foodways, and Journal of Folklore Research. She is the co-author of Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies (2019, UP of Mississippi), co-editor of Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-first Century, (2023, UP of Mississippi) and co-editor of the forthcoming Get It While It's Hot: Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the US South (2026). 

Shelley is currently Co-editor of the Journal of American Folklore.