Recent Accomplishments of EA Members

Ernest Able was invited to present his work on John Wilkes Booth at six venues in 2019.

Dora Apel recently published a WSU catalog essay on Farah Al Qasimi and an article on Iris Eichenberg. Rutgers University Press will publish her book Calling Memory into Place this fall. She also won a Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship in 2019.

John Bassett presented a talk at the Annual Meeting of the Council for Higher Education in 2020. He also served as chair of an accreditation committee for Maynooth University, Ireland, and as a mentor to minority administrators at University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers.

Robert Burgoyne published an article "Dunkirk and the Battlefield Gothic" in the Journal of Poetics of Audiovisual Images. A translation into Turkish of his New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics also appeared this past year. He gave a presentation on the refugee films of Richard Mosse and Ai Weiwei at three venues.

In 2020, Burgoyne taught a seminar on War and Cinema for the Film Studies Program at Michigan State. He is also co-organizer of Moving Histories: An International Symposium on Screened History at the University of Windsor for the period 2020-2023.

Mike Goldfield published a book in 2020: The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Oxford University Press). He also co-authored two articles: "The Myth of Section 7(a): Worker Militancy, Progressive Labor Legislation, and the Coal Miners" (Labor Studies in Working Class History) and "The Failure of Labor Unionism in the US South" (Labor and Working Class History, Southern History).

Donald Haase serves as Editor of the Series in Fairy-Tale Studies (WSU Press) and is a member of the board for four journals and the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. His primary University service is to the WSU Press and the Academy of Scholars. He also gave a presentation on "The Dark Side of Fairy Tales" for WSU Knowledge on Tap.

Robert MacKenzie presented a lecture "Gene Editing" to the Society of Active Retirees (SOAR) and a lecture "The Science of Appetite Regulation" at the WSU Medical School. He also served as volunteer facilitator for Citizen Detroit.

Arthur Marotti is editor of a book published in 2019: New Ways of Looking at Old Texts VI: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society 2011-16 (Tempe AZ). In 2019 he presented a keynote address "The Manuscript Circulation of Poetic Texts at the Inns of Court and in London in the Late-Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries" at a conference on The Early Modern Inns of Court and the Circulation of Texts at King's College, University of London, and gave a presentation "Catholic Verse in Manuscript and Print as Oppositional Politics" at a Huntington Library Conference on The Book Culture of the Elizabethan Catholic Underground.

Marotti serves on three editorial boards (Literature Compass, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, and British Catholic History), and two advisory boards (Criticism and Studies in English Literature 1500-1800). He continues work as a member of two funded research projects, one at the University of Newcastle and the other at the University of Birmingham, and is a collaborator at the Cambridge University Manuscript Lab. He serves on the Editorial Council of the Renaissance English Text Society and on the Academic Board for the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. In the community, he has served as facilitator for several CitizenDetroit meetings and taught a class on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night for SOAR. His extensive WSU service includes running grant writing workshops for faculty, giving talks on campus, judging student research presentations, and, of course, serving as Director of the Emeritus Academy.

Geoff Nathan published Cognitive Linguistics for Linguists (Springer), co-authored with Margaret Winters. He serves as member of the Committee on Scholarly Communication in Linguistics for the Linguistic Society of America. He also taught two classes for SOAR: Languages of the World (with Margaret Winters) and The Future of Artificial Intelligence.

Martha Ratliff gave a presentation "Austronesian/Hmong-Mien Sound Correspondences" at the University of Michigan in 2020. She serves on the advisory boards of Diachronica, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Papers in Historical Phonology, and Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. She reviewed manuscripts for journals and presses, and reviewed grant proposals for the NSF and the European Research Council. At WSU, she administers language proficiency tests for Hmong-American students.

Barry Rosen was recently named a Florida International University Top Scholar in the category of established faculty with significant grants. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has supported Rosen's research on arsenic toxicity and detoxification for nearly four decades, with total funding of over $23M. See article here.

Francis Shor published a book in 2020: Weaponized Whiteness: The Constructions and Deconstructions of White Identity Politics (Brill). He also published "The Long Life of U. S. Institutionalized White Supremacist Terror" in Critical Sociology and three articles in the online journals CounterPunch and Against the Current. He made conference presentations at the Social Science History Association Conference in Chicago and at a Utopian Studies Conference at MSU, and gave four local lectures and classes. He was named Fulbright Specialist for the period 2019-2022.

Shor serves as Director of the Public Education and Community Engagement Project and is an Advisory Board Member of the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights.

Frances Trix published two chapters, "Ramadan in Prizren, Kosovo" in Everyday Life in the Balkans (Indiana University Press) and "Kosova: Resisting Expulsion and Building on Independence" in Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989 (Cambridge University Press), as well as a review in the Annals of Anthropological Practice. She also presented a paper at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Vancouver: "Local Volunteers Working with Refugees across Germany: Community Size and Leadership as Variables".

Trix gave two local presentations in 2019, one for a memorial at the Albanian American Bektashi Center in Taylor and another at Christ Church in Detroit on refugees.

Charles Stivale published 35 translations of the lectures of Gilles Deleuze on the Deleuze Seminars website (Purdue University), 20 from the Leibniz seminar 1986-87 and 15 from the Spinoza seminars 1980-81. He serves as Co-Director of the Deleuze Seminars website. He also gave a talk at a Deleuze & Guattari Conference in Tokyo, "Deleuze, Gilles: The Pure, the Imperceptible, Sobriety".

Glenn Weisfeld published a book, Evolved Emotions: An Interdisciplinary and Functional Analysis (Lexington Books). He also co-edited Psychology of Marriage: An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural View (Lexington Books).

Arlene Weitz co-authored two articles: "Parents' Perceptions of Service Needs and Access of Adult Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder" in Families in Society and "Responding to Intimate Partner Violence: Urban Women's Decisions about Getting Personal Protection Orders when Other Resources are Scarce" in Violence Against Women.

Margaret Winters published two books this year: Historical Linguistics: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction (Benjamins) and with Geoff Nathan, Cognitive Linguistics for Linguists (Springer).

Winters is a member of the Board of Visitors, Wayne State University Press, an emerita member of the ACR Michigan Women's Network, and a member of the Advisory Council for the Association of Chief Academic Officers. She also taught Languages of the World (with Geoff Nathan) for SOAR.