M.A. in U.S. History, Louisiana State University, 1997
B.A. in History, California State University, 1995
Specialties: Race and racial mixture in the Americas, Creole history and culture, family history, autoethnography and interdisciplinary writing, histories of migration from the Gulf South to the West Coast.
Wendy A. Gaudin is the author of "Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole" (LSU Press, 2025). Her shorter interdisciplinary works have been published in Indiana Review, New Orleans Review Online, North American Review, Rappahannock Review, About Place Journal, New South Journal, and The Healing Muse. She has contributed chapters to "The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twentieth Century" (2017) and "Of Color: Poets' Ways of Making. An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics" (2019). In 2025, she was James and Sylvia Thayer Short-term Research Fellow at UCLA, and in 2026, she was Edward A. Mayers Short-term Research Fellow at the Huntington Library. She is the recipient of research and writing residencies at A Studio in the Woods, Monson Arts, Foundation House, and New York University. She is currently working on her second monograph on family narratives and childhood disability, tentatively titled, "Barbara Ann: A Life, Recovered."
Gaudin's research interests are primarily in Creole history and culture, racial and cultural hybridity in French colonial contexts, and histories of migration from Louisiana to California. She is trained in oral history, and her interdisciplinary publications include historical narrative, autoethnography, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
Gaudin teaches courses in the core as well as in the disciplines of History and African American and Diaspora Studies.
