Staff

Dr. Jaime Goodrich, Director

Jaime is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Wayne State University. She is also Series Editor of The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. She specializes in early modern literature, with a particular focus on early modern women writers and religion, especially Catholicism.  In recovering the neglected and lost voices of marginalized female authors, she aims to extend the boundaries of the canon and to demonstrate the value of early modern women's writings for our contemporary era. 

Dr. Victoria Stewart, Assistant Director

Victoria is Assistant Director of the Humanities Center at Wayne State University, additionally affiliated with the University of Wisconsin's Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and Northern Michigan University's UP North Films. Trained as a folklorist, Victoria has worked for two decades as an educator and program organizer/administrator in academic and public settings, connecting scholarly and local communities through programs that unite academic inquiry, student professional development, and community interests and needs.

Ariel Ferguson, Administrative Assistant

Ariel was born and raised in the city of Detroit. She attended Cass Technical High School and graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. Ariel loves to paint and care for houseplants in her free time. 

Walter Edwards, Founding Director

Born in Guyana, South America, Dr. Edwards earned a BA in English at the University of Guyana. He continued his education in England, earning an MA in Linguistics in English Language Teaching at University of Lancaster, England, and his Ph.D. in Language and Linguistics at University of York, England. At Wayne State University Dr. Edwards teaches several courses in linguistics. His research interests and publications include Guyanese Creole studies, African American Vernacular English, the sociolinguistics of rap lyrics and language and culture.