Michele Ronnick, associate professor of classics, was interviewed by Chronicle writer Eric Wills for a Q&A on her book The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough (Wayne State University Press). "There is a tremendous amount of recovery work still being done in the field of African-American studies - authors, artists, historians whose works are receiving publication for the first time. …By the time he died in 1926 …Scarborough was perceived as a fossil. He might have been looked at as a throwback to an earlier generation. His abiding interest in Greek and Latin might have looked positively alien at that point."