Board of Directors
The Ernest J. Gaines Center at University of Louisiana at Lafayette is an international center for scholarship on Ernest Gaines and his work. The center honors the work of UL Lafayette’s Writer-in-Residence Emeritus and provides a space for scholars and students to work with the Gaines papers and manuscripts. Gaines’s generous donation of his early papers and manuscripts (through 1983) and some artifacts to Edith Garland Dupré Library provided the foundation for the center’s collection. The center also anticipates acquiring the remainder of Gaines’s papers.
- Darrell Bourque, Professor Emeritus & Louisiana Poet Laureate
- Jules Edwards, Community Representative
- Dianne S. Gaines, Esq.
- Marcia Gaudet, Professor of English Emerita, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Phebe A. Hayes, Community Representative
- Jean Hurley O'Roark, Community Representative
- Jordan Kellman, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Barbara Kinchen, Community Representative
- James P. Lambert, Community Representative
- Derek Mosley, Director & Archivist of the Ernest J. Gaines Center
- Susan M. Richard, Associate Dean of Libraries, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Charles W. Triche, Dean of Libraries, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- I. Bruce Turner, Assistant Dean of Special Collection Services, Edith Garland Dupré Library, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Advisory Board of Gaines Scholars
- John Callahan, Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities, Lewis & Clark College & Literary Executor for Ralph Ellison
- Wiley Cash, Assistant Professor of English, Bethany College
- Denise Linton, Assistant Professor of Nursing & President, Black Faculty and Staff Association, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- John W. Lowe, Barbara Lester Methvin Distinguished Professor of Southern Literature, University of Georgia
- Charles Vincent, Professor of History, Southern University
- Reggie Scott Young, Associate Professor of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Founding Patrons
- David & Cindy Barry
- Charles & Bridget Boustany
- Dorothy Brown
- Walter & Ann Dobie
- Harold & Phebe Hayes
- Ernest & Barbara Kinchen
- James Lambert
- Charles W. Triche, III
- Friends of the Humanities
- Friends of Edith Garland Dupré Library
