Richard Raspa, Professor, Graduate Chair / Folklore, Literature, Mythology, Oral Communication / mailto:Richard.Raspa@wayne.edu
Homepage: http://www.is.wayne.edu/draspa/
Dick Raspa's interests
include folklore, literature, and organizational theory. Professor Raspa
has published 4 books, one of which co-authored with Elizabeth Mathias,
Italian Folktales in America: The Verbal Art of an Immigrant Woman, received
an international award, the Botkin prize, from the American Folklore Society
for the best first book in the field of folklore. He has published his
research on European drama, on organizations such as General Motors and
Dominos, and entrepreneurs such as, Donald Trump and Ted Turner,
and contributed chapters to books in folklore, literature, and organizational
culture. A Fulbright Lecturer in Italy and an Ellsworth Fellow, he has
presented over 100 papers at national and international conferences in all
three fields. He regularly teaches the China Study Trip which brings
Wayne State University students to China to take seminars at Zhejiang
University and make on-site visits to Chinese organizations.
He was a keynote speaker in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, for a world conference on
organizational culture. He is currently collaborating on a book with a
psychiatrist from the University of California School of Medicine, entitled
"The Phoenix Principle," about change. In 2004,
Springer will publish a book, "End-of-Life Narratives: Toward an
Interdisciplinary Perspective," which he has co-authored.