Barry Jean Ancelet is Professor Emeritus of Francophone Studies and Center for Louisiana Studies Research Fellow at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has given many papers and published numerous articles and several books on various aspects of Louisiana's Cajun and Creole cultures and languages, including Cajun and Creole Music Makers (1984; revised 1999), Cajun Country (1991), Cajun Music: Origins and Development (1989), and Cajun and Creole Folktales (1994). He is part of the research team that produced the Dictionary of Louisiana French as Spoken in Cajun, Creole and American Indian Communities (2009), as well as the Anthologie de la littèrature louisianaise d'expression française de 1682 à nos jours (2017). He has also contributed to numerous documentary films, including co-producing Against the Tide (2001), radio programs on Louisiana French culture, and CDs featuring Cajun and Creole music. He co-founded Lafayette's annual Festivals Acadiens et Créoles in 1974 and has directed it since then, and he hosted the "Rendez-vous des Cadiens," a weekly live radio show from the Liberty Theater in Eunice, Louisiana, for 24 years. He is a Chevalier in France's Palmes Académiques and and Officier in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a member of Quebec's Ordre des Francophones d'Amérique, a Fellow of the American Folklore Society, and was the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Humanist of the Year in 2009. His alter ego, Jean Arceneaux has produced several collections of French poetry and short fiction, as well as song lyrics and plays. Together they served as Poète Lauréat de la Louisiane francophone (2018-2020).