Rate My Professor Granville Ganter

Granville Ganter is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department at St. John's University, where he joined the faculty after earning his Ph.D. in English Literature from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 1998. He holds additional degrees including an M.Phil. from CUNY Graduate Center in 1995, an M.A. from the University of Vermont in 1989, M.A. coursework from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College in 1987, and a B.A. from Boston University in 1983. His research focuses on oratory, rhetoric, and performance from the colonial period through the Civil War. He frequently teaches courses on African American and Native American literary traditions as well as surveys of major writers from the colonial, early national, and Transcendental eras.

Ganter is the editor of The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket, published by Syracuse University Press in 2006. He received the award for best essay in African American Review in 2004 for his article “He Made Us Laugh Some: Frederick Douglass’s Humor.” He has been awarded fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the New York Historical Society. Ganter serves as an advisor for the department’s student-run journal, the St. John’s Humanities Review.