Examples of Publications Stemming from
Funding by the Humanities Center

Books:

Upcoming Humanities Center 10th Anniversary collection: Remapping the Humanities: Identity, Community, Memory, (Post)Modernity. Eds. Mary Garrett, Heidi Gottfried, and Sandra F. VanBurkleo.

Aguirre, Robert. Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Bukowczyk, John J., Faires, Nora, Smith, David R., and Widdis, Randy William. Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region 1650-1990. N.p.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

Chinea, Jorge L. Racial Politics and Commercial Agriculture: The West Indian Immigrant Worker Experience in Puerto Rico, 1800-1850. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.

Duggan, Anne. Salonnieres, Furies and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.

Erb, Cynthia. Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998.

Gelfand, Donald E., Raspa, Richard, Briller, Sherylyn H., and Schim, Stephanie Myers, eds. End- of- Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries. N.p.: Springer Publishing Company, 2005.

Goldfield, Michael. The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics. New York: The New Press, 1997.

Gorzelsky, Gwen. The Language of Experience: Literate Practices and Social Change. Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture, ed. David Bartholomae and Jean Carr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.

Kruman, Marc W. Between Authority and Liberty: State Constitution Making in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Locke, Nancy. Manet and the Family Romance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

MacLean, Gerald, Landry, Donna, and Ward, Joseph P, eds. The Country and the City Revisited: England and the Politics of Culture, 1550-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Ronnick, Michele Valerie, ed. The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005.

Shor, Francis Robert. Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America: 1888-1918. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Yanal, Robert. Hitchcock as Philosopher. N.p.: McFarland Publishers, 2005.

Vollendorf, Lisa. The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.

Vollendorf, Lisa, ed. Recovering Spain’s Feminist Tradition. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2001.

VanBurkleo, Sandra F. “Belonging to the World”: Women’s Rights and American Constitutional Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

VanBurkleo, Sandra F., Hall, Kermin H., and Kaczorowski, Robert J., eds. Constitutionalism and American Culture: Writing the New Constitutional History. N.p.: University Press of Kansas, 2002.

Vlasopolos, Anca. No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Wise, Edward M., and Podgor, Ellen S. International Criminal Law: Cases and Materials. N.p.: Lexis Publishing, 2000.

Watten, Barrett. The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.

Articles and Chapters:

Upcoming in Remapping the Humanities: Identity, Community, Memory, (Post)Modernity:

Abbott, Philip R. “Utopians at Play”

Aguirre, Robert. “Mexico in 1824: The Consequences of Freedom”

Collins, Chris. “Jazz From the Shamrock Shore”

Corbatta, Jorgelina. "The Affair Pinochet in London, its echoes in Chilean authors (Isabel Allende, Ariel Dorfman) and its mirror in Spain (Francisco Umbral)"

Corvino, John. “Homosexuality and Biblical Interpretation”

Duggan, Anne E. “Adults at Play”

Gorzelsky, Gwen. “Manufacturing Citizens: Steeltown and Literate Practices”

Johnson, Christopher. “The Sibling Archipelago: Brother-Sister Love and Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century France”

Landry, Donna. “The Making of the English Hunting Seat”

MacLean, Gerald. “The Sultan's Beasts: James Bond Goes to Istanbul”

Nawara, Jim. “Depopulated Landscapes”

Roth, Brad. “Coercion And The Quest For Substantive Freedom”

Shor, Fran. “The Double Deployment of Memory: Enacting and Remembering the Paterson and Star of Ethiopia Pageants”

Strozier, Bob. “Motion and Modernity”

Vlasopolos, Anca. “Staged Feminisms”

Vollendorf, Lisa. “Six Centuries of Collaboration”

Abbot, Phillip. “The Declaration of Independence: From Philadelphia to Gettysburg to Birmingham”. American Studies, A Quarterly. 42:3 (1997): 451-469.

Abt, Jeffrey. “Drawing Over Photographs: James H. Breasted and the Scientizing of Egyptian Epigraphy, 1895-1928”. Visual Resources. 14 (1998): 19-69.

Aguirre, Robert. “Annihilating the Distance: Panoramas and the Conquest of Mexico, 1822-1848”. Genre. 35 (Spring 2002): 25-54.

Apel, Dora. “On Looking: Lynching photographs and legacies of lynching after 9/11”. American Quarterly. 55:3 (2003): 457-478.

Barton, Ellen, and Ray, Ruth. “Beyond Academe: Investigating Composition and Rhetoric in the Field”. Research as Critical Practice. Eds. C. Anson and C. Farris. Utah: Utah State University Press, forthcoming.

Barton, Ellen. “Discourses of Disability in the Digest”. JAC. 23:3 (2001): 555-581.

Barton, Ellen. “Textual Practices of Erasure: Representations of Disability and the Founding of the United Way”. Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture. Eds. James C. Wilson, and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.

Barton, Ellen. “Negotiating Expertise in Discourses of Disability”. Text. 16 (1996): 299–322.

Barton, Ellen. “The Social Work of Diagnosis: Evidence for Judgements of Competence and Incompetence”. Constructing (In) Competence: Disabling Evaluations in Clinical and Social Interaction. Eds. Dana Kovarsky, Judith Felson Duchan, and Madeline Maxwell. N.p.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.

Booth, Ken. “Three Tyrannies”. Human Rights and Global Politics. Eds. Tim Dunne, and Nicholas J. Wheeler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Byars, Jackie, and Eileen R. Meehan. “Once in a Lifetime: Constructing ‘The Working Woman’ through Cable Narrowcasting”. Camera Obscura. (1996): 13-41.

Chauderlot, Fabienne-Sophie. “’Becoming Image’: Deleuzian Echoes in Jacques Rivette’s La Religieuse”. Eighteenth Century Life. 25 (Winter, 2001): 88-100.

Chinea, Jorge. “A Quest for Freedom: The Immigration of Maritime Maroons into Puerto Rico, 1656-1800”. The Journal of Caribbean History. 31:1&2 (1997): 51-87.

Cory, Kenneth. “Discovering Hidden Analogies in an Online Humanities Database”. Computers and the Humanities. 31 (1997): 1-12.

Duggan, Anne E. “Good and Bad Bread: Sacrificing the Sacred and Abject Other in Jean-Pierre Camus”. Victims and Victimization in French and Francophone Literature. Ed. Buford Norman. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 73-85.

Giordano, Michael. “The Blason Anatomique and Related Fields: Emblematics, nominalism, mannerism, and descriptive anatomy as illustrated by Maurice Scève’s Blason de la Gorge”. An Interregnum of the Sign: The Emblematic Age in France. Ed. David Graham. Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2001.

Haase, Donald. “Children, War, and the Imaginative Space of Fairy Tales”. The Lion and The Unicorn. N.p.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Johnson, Christopher H. “Becoming Bourgeois: Kinship and Class in a Breton Family, 1700-1850”. French Historical Studies. (January 6, 1999)

Likaka, Osumaka. “Colonisation et Construction d’Identités. L’administration Belge et l’Identité Mbole, 1910-1960”. Revue Française d’Histoire d’Outre-Mer. 85 (1998): 27-41.

Lindberg, Kathryne. “Depejorating ‘Uplift’ and Re-centering Race Poetry: Lorenzo Thomas’s Extraordinary Measures”. Boundary. 2. 28:2 (2001): 21-32.

Lindberg, Kathryne. “Rebels to the Right/Revolution to the Left: Ezra Pound and Claude McKay in ‘The Syndicalist Year’ of 1912”. Ezra Pound and African American Modernism. Ed. Michael Coyle. N.p: National Poetry Foundation, 2001.

Locke, Nancy. “Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe as a Family Romance”. Manet’s Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe. Ed. Paul Hayes Tucker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 119-151.

Marotti, Arthur. “Manuscript Transmission and the Catholic Martyrdom Account in Early Modern English”. Print, Manuscript and Performance: The Media in Early Modern England. Eds. Arthur Marotti, and Michael Bristol. Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2000.

Martìn-Rodriguez, Manual. “Hyenas in the Pride Lands: Latino/as and immigration in Disney’s Lion King”. Aztlán. 25:1 (Spring, 2000): 47-65.

McNamee, Kathleen. “A Plato Papyrus with Shorthand Marginalia”. Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies. 22 (1998): 97-116.

Ratliff, Martha. “Vocabulary of Environment and Subsistence in the Hmong-Mien Proto-Language”. The Hmong/Miao in Asia. Eds. Nocholas Tapp, Jean Michaud, Christian Culas and Gar Yia Lee. N.p.: Silkworm Books, 2004.

Ray, Ruth. “New Meanings for Old Tales: A discourse-based study of reminiscence and development in late life”. Critical Advances in Reminiscence Work: From Theory to Application. Eds. Jeffrey Dean Webster, and Barbara K. Haight. N.p.: Springer Publishing Company, 2002.

Reed, John. “Dickens’s Military Men”. Dickens Quarterly. 24:3 (1997).

Reed, John. “Military”. A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Ed. Herbert F. Tucker. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 1999.

Reed, John R. “Recruiting the Cultural Militia; Or, Why the Troops Didn’t Answer Captain Thomas’ Call”. Carlyle Studies Annual. 17 (1997): 83-89.

Reed, John. “Soldier Boy: Forming masculinity in Adam Bede”. Studies in the Novel. 33:3 (Fall, 2001): 268-284.

Ronnick, Michele Valerie. "From Rome to Detroit: Augustus Woodward and the Campus Martius". Detroit and Rome: Building on the Past. Ed.Melanie Grunow Sobocinski. Dearborn, Michigan: University of Michigan-Dearborn Press, 2005.

Ronnick, Michele Valeria. “William Sanders Scarborough”. Classical Outlook. 74:4 (Summer, 1997): 139-140.

Ronnick, Michele Valerie. “William Sanders Scarborough: The First African American Member of the Modern Language Association”. Publications of the Modern Language Association Special Millennium Edition. 115:7 (2000): 1787-1793.

Stivale, Charles. “On heccéités and ritournelles: Movement and Affect in the Cajun Dance Arena”. Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies. Eds. Ann Cvetkovich, and Douglas Kellner. N.p.: Westview Press, 1997.

Stivale, Charles. “‘Spam’: Heteroglossia and Harassement in Cyberspace”. Internet Culture. Ed. David Porter. N.p: Routledge, 1997.

Stivale, Charles. “‘Spaces of Affect’: Versions and Visions of Cajun cultural History”. South Central Review. 11:4 (1994): 15-25.

Stivale, Charles. “Stairway to Heaven, or Virtual Topographies on Paradis Virtuels”. Post(e). 10(1996): 5-14.

Stivale, Charles. “‘This Funny Chemistry’: Narrative Desire and Discourse in Test-based Virtual Reality”. Works and Days. 25/26 (1995): 7-27.

Stivale, Charles. “‘help manners’: Cyber-democracy and its Vissitudes”. Enculturation. 1:1 (1997).

Vlasopolos, Anca. “Free-Floating Marginals and Contagious Degeneracy in the London and Paris of the Mid and Late Nineteenth Century”. Lyrical Symbols and Narrative Transformations: Essays in Honor of Ralph Freedman. Eds. Kathleen L. Komar, and Ross Shideler. N.p.: Camden House, 1998.

Washington, Olivia. “Using Brief Therapeutic Interventions to Create Change in Self-Efficacy and Personal Control of Chemically Dependent Women”. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing. 15:1 (2001): 32-40.

Washington, Olivia, and Moxley, David. “Group Interventions with Low-Income African American Women Recovering from Chemical Dependency”. Health and Social Work. 28:2 (2003): 146-156.

Watten, Barrett. “New Meaning and Poetic Vocabulary: From Coleridge to Jackson Mac Low”. Poetics Today. 18:2 (1997): 147-186.

Wilson, Leon, and Kposowa, Augustine J. “Parental Involvement with Children: Evidence from Guyana”. International Journal of Sociology of the Family. 24 (Spring, 2004): 23-42.

Exhibits:

Ronnick, Michele Valerie. "12 Black Classicists". Photo Installation.

Performances:

Hartway, James. “Star Dancer” a musical score for a large orchestra composed for the opening of the renovated Old Main building. The premiere performance was given by the Wayne State University Symphony Orchestra in 1997.

Powers, Eva. “The Spirit Moves: Shaping Cultural Identity Through Music and Dance, African and American Perspective” The video has been shown in seven lectures.