Martin Shichtman
Professor, English; Director, Jewish Studies
Expertise: Medieval literature, Arthurian literature, Cinema, Literature, Film, The Holocaust, The BDS movement
About
Martin B. Shichtman is Director of Jewish Studies and Professor of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He has been a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and at Brandeis University's Schusterman Institute for Israel Studies. He received of a Mellon Partnership grant with Smith College for Jewish Studies programming, has also directed several National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for School Teachers, and an NEH Focus Grant, teaming teachers from EMU with teachers from Detroit's Mumford High School. For the past five years, he has directed a summer seminar for school teachers at the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills. Dr. Shichtman is co-author of Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and King Arthur and the Myth of History (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2004). He co-edited Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994) and Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1987). He has published thirty-five scholarly articles and has presented more than 100 papers at international, national and regional conferences.
