Michele Valerie Ronnick is Associate Professor in the Department of
Classics, Greek and Latin at Wayne State University. A Latinist by
training with a book on Cicero's Stoic Paradoxes, she has published
widely in journals here and abroad and has won a number of
professional awards for excellence in scholarship, teaching and
service on regional and national levels. Ronnick's special interest
in the Classical Tradition led her to open up a new
subfield of reception studies, Classica Africana, a.k.a. black
classicism, which examines the influence of classics upon the
creative and professional lives of people of African descent. She
is the editor of a critical
edition of The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough.
"Ronnick has contributed significant annotations to Scarborough's
materials. Students of African American past will welcome having
these many contributions gathered in a single volume."--T.F.
Armstrong, CHOICE
"It is a tribute to the industry of Michele Valerie Ronnick that
she has gathered in this volume several dozen of Scarborough's many
writings: book reviews, essays on politics, scholarly articles,
letters to editors, forewards to books, and the texts of some
speeches. All of these help fill out the picture of Scarborough as
a tireless advocate for justice, one who spoke with care,
cognizance of facts, and fearlessness. This is a splendid volume
that merits a
place in all academic library collections. Ronnick's editorial
comments help make Scarborough's writings understandable to a wide
readership, and we may hope that she and Oxford [University Press]
can
locate and publish his correspondance in addition to these
writings."--Catholic Library World
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