Wayne State University Professor Charles Stivale of Ferndale is one of five recipients of this year's WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Awards for his book The Two-Fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari: Intersections and Animations. Stivale is chairman of the Romance languages and literatures department.

The award consists of a citation, an engraved plaque and an unrestricted grant of $2,500.

Stivale's book also received a 1998 Choice Outstanding Academic Book award from the American Library Association.

Stivale received his bachelor's degree from Knox College and his master's from the Sorbonne-Paris IV, from which he also received a second degree, amaitrise. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign.

He joined Wayne State 1990 after holding positions at Western Michigan University, Franklin and Marshall College and Tulane University.

Stivale has received numerous awards including a French Government Scholarship from the French Consulate, several research grants, travel grants and fellowships from Wayne State, the University of Illinois-Urbana and Tulane. He received a WSU Humanities Center Fellowship in 1994 and 1995.

The main purpose of his book on the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari is to provide readers with an introductory orientation to different facets of the authors' collaborative writings.

Rather than providing a gloss on the authors' primary works, Stivale hopes to assist readers in approaching the primary texts more fruitfully and also to consider possibilities of working with concepts introduced within them.