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Born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Nathan attended Indiana University in Bloomington where he earned a BS in Business and a Minor in French (2011). He later attended Tulane University where he earned an MA (2017) and a PhD (2020) in Anthropology. He currently teaches as a General Faculty member at the University of Virginia. His research interests concern the intersection of language and identity, particularly in contexts of contact and migration. He collaborates with the Creole communities of Louisiana and Texas and has co-authored a primer on the Louisiana Creole language. He is also an active member of the Tunica-Biloxi Culture and Language Revitalization Project where he works specifically on ethnobotany.
Recent publications:
Wendte, Nathan A. 2020. “Creole” - a Louisiana Label in a Texas Context. New Orleans, LA: Lulu Press, Inc.
———. 2021. “Grènn Èk Bourjon.” Résonance, Borderalnds: North and South, 3 (Article 20). https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/resonance/vol3/iss1/20.
———. 2022a. “Singing the King’s Creole: The (Ethno)Linguistic Repertoire of Clifton Chenier.” In Contact Languages and Music, edited by Andrea Hollington, Joseph T. Farquharson, and Byron M. Jones Jr., 159–89. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press.
———. 2022b. “The Chronotopic Organization of Louisiana Creole Ethnolinguistic Identity.” Études Francophones 35:93–121.
———. 2024a. “‘Çété Méné Endan Lalwizyann’: The Role of Haiti in Representations of Louisiana Creole Language and Identity.” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12752.
———. 2024b. “Louisiana Creole (Louisiana, USA) – Language Snapshot.” PDF,XML. Language Documentation and Description 24 (1). https://doi.org/10.25894/LDD.2484.