Frank D. Rashid

Professor of English

Faculty member, Institute for Detroit Studies

Madame Cadillac Building #261

Marygrove College

8425 West McNichols

Detroit, MI 48221

313-927-1448

frashid@marygrove.edu

Lifelong Detroiter Frank Rashid received his Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Detroit. He has taught at Marygrove since 1980 and served as department chair from 1998 until 2007. He is also on the faculty of Marygrove’s Institute for Detroit Studies. He teaches literature and writing courses including Academic Writing, Introduction to Literature, Approaches to Literary Studies, Modern Poetry, American Literature, Detroit in Literature, and an interdisciplinary course: Detroit and the Contemporary Urban Crisis. He has published essays on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Robert Hayden, and Lawrence Joseph and on Detroit history and politics. Current projects include a Literary Map of Detroit and studies of violence and work in Detroit literature. Since 1986, he has been writing the history of Detroit’s oldest institution, Ste. Anne’s Church. Rashid was a founding member of the Tiger Stadium Fan Club, which engaged in an unsuccessful, decade-long battle to block public stadium subsidies in Detroit. Rashid serves on the advisory board of the Wayne State University Press’s Michigan Writers Series. He and his wife, Kim Stroud, are restoring their 1929 Tudor home in a beautiful Detroit neighborhood one mile east of Marygrove’s campus. He has three children: Anne, who teaches English at Carlow University in Pittsburgh; Joe, a Marygrove graduate who lives and works in Detroit; and Carolina, who arrived in 2007.