Arts & Humanities Program Faculty

Robert Schaible, Associate Professor of Arts and Humanities University of Tennessee, Ph.D.

Professor Schaible received his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Tennessee. His interests encompass interdisciplinary studies and the importance of multicultural studies in American history. Dr. Schaible was the last holder of the prestigious Walter E. Russell Chair in Philosophy and Education. He recently delivered the keynote address at Drury University's fourth annual conference on Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching held last March. He also directed a seminar on “The Meaning of Human in the Poetry of Stephen Dunn” at the 48th annual Star Island Conference of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. Professor Schaible is Vice-president for Conferences of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS). He also recently conducted a workshop entitled “Is Nature Enough? - An Answer from Two American Poets” at a recent IRAS Conference, and during the fall of 2002 he presented a paper entitled “Religious Naturalism: A Unity of Science, Religion, and Poetry” at the national conference of the Association for Integrated Studies at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.

Eve Raimon, Associate Professor of Arts and Humanities, Brandeis University, Ph.D.

Prof. Raimon received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University in 1995. Her book, The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisted: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth Century Antislavery Literature, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2004. She teaches courses in ethnic studies, gender studies, popular culture, critical thinking, literary theory, critical race theory, and expository writing. Her research interests intersect American studies and cultural studies. She also teaches  in the Women's Studies program in Portland. She has published on the political history of U.S. miscegenation, on service learning and adult students, on the interdisciplinary teaching of race, and on student transference and resistance in the feminist classroom. She also co-edited a collection entitled Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing and Region which was published by University Press of New England. Wilson was a nineteenth-century indentured servant in New Hampshire who wrote Our Nig: Or Sketches in the Life of a Free Black.

Barry Rodrigue, Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities, Université Laval, Ph.D., and University of Maine, Ph.D.

Prof. Rodrigue got his first Ph.D. in Geography from Université Laval in Quebec City in 1999, and his second in archeology and history from the University of Maine in Orono in 2000. He teaches courses in cultural fieldwork, ethnic and Indigenous studies, labor and industrial history, ethnography, international studies, historical archeology, North American history, human geography, and other related subjects. Prof. Rodrigue is also the scholar attached to USM L-A’s Franco-American Heritage Collection and coordinator of the French North American concentration in the Arts and Humanities Program. He has spoken and published widely on the ethnic history of North America. In 1994, Garland Publishing in New York brought out his book, Tom Plant: The Making of a Franco-American Entrepreneur, 1859-1941. In 2002, some of Prof. Rodrigue's folk music and oral history materials from Alaska were released on C.D.'s by the Smithsonian Institution. He also co-directed the book and wrote chapters for L’histoire régionale de la Beauce-Etchemin-Amiante, published by the Quebec government’s Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Fall 2003. His long-awaited study of the Maine / Quebec borderlands, The Canada Road Frontier: 1790-1860, is planned for publication in 2004. He presents regularly at international conferences, most recently in Canada, France, Russia and Bath, Maine. Despite a large research agenda, his major concern is on creatively engaging students in primary field research and meaningful social projects.

Stephen Romanoff, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of Russell Scholars Program, New York University, Ph.D.

Professor Romanoff received his Ph.D. in Educational Humanities and English Education from New York University in 1984. His interest in the humanities extend from the inter-relatedness of all things and our limitless options for peace through creativity and communication. He directs and teaches in the internationally- recognized Russell Scholars Program, an interdisciplinary residential learning-community on the Gorham campus. Russell Scholars students from all majors complete many core requirements through collaborative learning in linked courses that emphasize writing, critical thinking, and service. Prof. Romanoff's article entitled "A Case Study: Linking Students Across Geographical and Cultural Distances" recently appeared in New Directions for Teaching and Learning, (Jossey-Bass, Summer 2003). His other research includes traditional song, as well as writing and performing his own songs with his internationally- acclaimed folk ensemble, Schooner Fare. Prof. Romanoff published a book of songs, a CD, and has received several awards from the American Society of Composers, Artists, and Publishers (ASCAP). He recently performed his songs at Portland's Merrill Auditorium with the Portland Opera Repertory Theater Orchestra with Boston Pops conductor, Bruce Hangen. In the fall of 2003, he will return to Washington, D.C. to perform at Wolf Trap, America's National Park for the Performing Arts.

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