"Professor Marotti is one of the pillars of our English Department and a faculty member whose accomplishments bring credit to his department, his college and the university as a whole.  His record of teaching, service and publication is truly impressive, as is his demonstrated ability to secure external support. We are very pleased to count him among our premier faculty," said Dean Robert Thomas, of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Marotti, who received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1965, specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature; Lyric poetry from Wyatt to Milton; Shakespeare; historical a pproaches to early modern literature; bibliography and textual criticism; literary transmission in manuscript and print; and the study of literature and religious culture in the early modern period.

Currently vice president of the Wayne State University Academy of Scholars, Marotti also held an NEH fellowship during the year 2000. The fellowship was for researching and writing Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England, a book due to appear in February, 2005 from the University of Notre Dame Press. The author of two other books, and editor or co-editor of five more, Marotti has taught at Wayne State for 35 years.