GranvilleGanter
Associate Professor of
English
St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Queens Campus, St. John Hall, Rm. B40-8
(718) 990-5617
ganterg@stjohns.edu
On Leave, Fall 2006
Education
1998 Ph.D. in English Literature. City University of New
York, Graduate Center
1995 M.Phil. in English Literature. CUNY Graduate Center
1989 M.A. in English Literature. University of Vermont
1987 Breadloaf School of English, Middlebury College
1983 B.A. in English Literature. Boston University
Areas of Interest
18th and 19th Century U.S. Literature, Oratory and Performance,
Northeast
Native American Studies, African American Literature
Books
The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red
Jacket. Syracuse University Press, under contract for release
in Summer 2006.
Articles and Chapters
with Hani Sarji. "May We Put Forth Our Leaves": Rhetoric in the
School Journal
of Mary Ware Allen, Student of Margaret Fuller's, 1837-8.
forthcoming, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society
"The Unexceptional Eloquence of Sarah Josepha Hale."
forthcoming, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society 112.2 (Spring 2004): 116-
136.
"Sovereign Municipalities?: After the Maine Indian Claims
Settlement Act of
1980." Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and
Contemporary
Controversies. Ed. Bruce Johansen. Westport, CT: Praeger,
2004. 25-43
"'He Made Us Laugh Some': Frederick Douglass's Humor."
African American
Review 37.4 (Winter 2003): 535-552.
"Decadence, Sexuality, and the Bohemian Vision of Wallace
Thurman."
MELUS 28.2 (Summer 2003): 83-104.
"Republican Pleasures: Emerson's "Circles," Oratory, and the Log
Cabin
Campaign." American Transcendental Quarterly 16.4 (Dec
2002): 257-75.
"The Art of Prophecy: Interpretive Analysis, Academic Discourse,
and
Expository Writing" Composition Studies 29.1 (Spring
2001): 63-79.
"'You Are a Cunning People Without Sincerity': Sagoyewatha and
the Trials
of Community Representation." Native American Speakers of the
Eastern
Woodlands: Selected Speeches and Critical Analyses. Ed.
Barbara Mann.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001. 165-195.
"Tuning In: Daniel Webster, Alfred Schutz, and the Grateful
Dead." Dead
Reckoning: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead. Ed. John
Rocco. New
York: Schirmer Books, 1999. 172-181.
"The Active Virtue of The Columbian Orator." New England
Quarterly 70.3
(Sept 1997): 463-476.
"Battles of Rhetoric: Oratory and Identity in The Last of
the Mohicans." James
Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers 9 (Aug 1997): 7-14.
Link
"Voices of Instruction: Oratory and Discipline in Cooper's
The Last of the
Mohicans and The Redskins." James Fenimore
Cooper: His Country and
His Art; Papers of the 1997 James Fenimore Cooper Symposium.
Oneonta:
SUNY Oneonta, 1999. 47-53. Link
"Rioting, Textuality, and The Crying of Lot 49." Found
Object 2 (Fall 1993):
67-81.
Reviews and Shorter
Publications
Rev. of Daniel Webster and the Oratory of Civil Religion
by Craig R. Smith. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2005. in The
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 103.3 (Summer
2005): 563-566.
“Red Jacket,” “Joseph Brant,” “Maine Indian Claims Settlement
Act of 1980.” in Encyclopedia of Native American History.
Ed. Bruce Johansen. Praeger. Forthcoming, 2006.
“Rhetoric” American Literature Through History,
1820-1870. Ed. Robert Sattlemeyer and Janet Gabler-Hover. New York:
Scribner’s, forthcoming, 2006.
Rev. if The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American
Literature by
Mary Esteve. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. The St. John's
Humanities
Review 1.3 (Fall 2003)
http://facpub/~ganterg/sjureview/vol2-1/crowd.html
Rev. of Drop City by T.C. Boyle. New York: Vintage,
2003. The St. John's
Humanities Review 2 (April 2003)
http://facpub/~ganterg/sjureview/vol2-1/drop.html
Rev. of Publics and Counterpublics by Michael Warner.
New York: Zone
Books, 2002. The St. John's Humanities Review 1 (February
2003): 4-10.
http://facpub/~ganterg/sjureview/vol1-1/publics.html
Rev. of Emerson, Thoreau, and the Cultural Critic by
Sam McGuire Worley.
Albany: SUNY UP, 2001. New England Quarterly 75.1
(March 2002):
165-167.
"Solomon Stoddard," "David Humphreys," "Jared Sparks," "George
Ticknor,"
"N.P. Willis." Encyclopedia of American Literature Ed.
Steven Serafin. New
York: Continuum, 1999.
"William Leete Stone" and "Benjamin Drake" American National
Biography.
New York: Oxford, 1999. 20: 874-5. 6: 860-1.
Grants, Awards, Fellowships
2004 Darwin Turner Award. Best essay in African American
Review. "'He
Made Us Laugh Some': Fredrick Douglass's Humor."
2002 New York Historical Society, Delmas Fellow. Project: "'When
America
Meant North America and South America: 1816-1826."
2002 St. John's University Summer Research Grant: "May We Put
Forth Our
Leaves': A Critical Edition of the School Journal of Mare Allen, a
Student of
Margaret Fuller's from 1837-8."
2001 American Antiquarian Society, Peterson Fellow. Project:
"Pregnant
Words: the Matrix of Women's Oratory, 1800-1850."
Full-time Teaching
St. John's University.
Visiting Professor, 1998-1999; Assistant Professor,
1999-present
Graduate Courses:
Transcendentalism
High/Low in African-American Folk Literature
Literary Theory
Dickinson / Whitman
U.S. Realism and Naturalism, 1865-1914
American Sublime
Antebellum Literature
Colonial U.S. Literature
Rescuing Melodrama
Undergraduate Courses:
Introduction to Literary Theory
Reading Romance
Antebellum Reform Movements
High/Low in African-American Folk Literature
African-American Literature to 1900
Poe / Melville
Antebellum Literature
Colonial U.S. Literature
U.S. Literature to 1865
U.S. Literature survey
Mercy College. Dobbs Ferry, NY.
Instructor, 1997-1998.
College Composition
U.S. Literature Survey
Professional Employment
Native American Literature and History Manuscript Referee,
Greenwood
Press, 2002.
Steering Committee Member, Doctoral Students' Council at CUNY,
1992-4.
Co-Chair, CUNY Doctoral Students' Council, 1992-3.
Staff Newswritter, CUNY Graduate Center Advocate, 1991-4.
Professional Service
St. John's University
Liberal Arts Faculty Council (LAFC), 2001-present.
Chair, General Committee, LAFC, 2002- present
General Committee, LAFC, 2001-present
Ad Hoc Committee on ESL, Spring 2002.
Budget Committee, 2004-present.
Graduate Affairs Committee, 2004, present.
Dean's Ad Hoc Committee on Placement Exam Testing, Fall 2002.
Undergraduate Education Committee. English Program,
2000-2003.
Graduate Comprehensive/ Portfolio Exam Committee. English Program,
1999-
present.
Graduate Education Committee. English Program, 1998-2000;
2003-present.
Mercy College
Director of Transfer Advisement. English Program, 1997-8.
Hiring Committee. Division of Literature, Language and
Communications,
1997-8.
Curriculum Committee. English Program, 1997-8.
Portfolio Reading Committee. English Program, 1997-8.
Recruitment Committee. English Program, 1997-8.
Exit Exam Reading Committee. English Program. 1998.
MLA
Steering Committee. MLA Graduate Student Caucus, 1996-7.
CUNY
Graduate Council Representative. English Program, CUNY Graduate
Center,
1992-4; 1996-8.
CUNY Doctoral Students' Council, 1992-6.
Steward. CUNY English Students' Association Discussion List,
1995-8.
President's Task Force on the University Center. CUNY Graduate
Center,
1994-5.
Admissions Committee. English Program, CUNY Graduate Center,
1994-5.
Self-Study Committee. English Program, CUNY Graduate Center,
1994.
Executive Committee. English Program, CUNY Graduate Center,
1994-5.
Chair, Media Board. CUNY Graduate Center, 1993.
Executive Committee. CUNY English Forum Committee, 1993-4.
Co-Chair. English Students' Association, 1991-3..
Vice President of College Association. CUNY Graduate Center,
1991-3.
Editorial Board. CUNY Student Union, 1992-3.
Cultural Studies Steering Committee. CUNY, 1990-3.
Recruitment Committee. English Program, CUNY Graduate Center,
1991-2.
Graduate School Awards
- 1998 Irving Howe Dissertation Prize, City University of New
York
(CUNY) Graduate Center - 1994 Helaine Newstead Dissertation Grant, CUNY Graduate
Center
- 1995 Lynn Kadison Award for Community Service, CUNY
English
Program - 1993 Belle Zeller Award, CUNY Faculty Union
- 1992-1995 Graduate "A" Fellowship, Hunter College
- 1987-1989 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of
Vermont
Conference Papers and
Presentations
"The Case for Red Jacket.” Native American Literature Society
panel. MLA, December 30, 2005.
"Frederick Douglass's Hustle" Douglass-Melville Conference. New
Bedford,
MA June 23, 2005.
"Is It Oratory?: Women's Public Speech before 1848." Conference
of the
American Antiquarian Society. June 10, 2005.
Invitational Lecture: "The "Failure" of Transcendentalism?"
Walden
Conference. Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI. February 25,
2004.
"The Old Truths: Frederick Douglass and the Kansas-Nebraska
Debates."
Sesquicentennial Abraham Lincoln Conference. Roger Williams
University,
Bristol, RI. June 26, 2004.
"'When We Open Our Leaves': the School Journals of Mary Ware
Allen."
Margaret Fuller Society Panel. Modern Language Association (MLA)
San
Diego, CA December 2003.
"Dickinson's Apocalypses" North American Society for the Study
of
Romanticism (NASSR). Fordham University, New York, New York.
August
3, 2003.
"Frederick Douglass Lied." American Literature Association
(ALA).
Cambridge, MA. May 22, 2003.
Invitational Lecture: "Emerson and the Flux of Social Identity."
Ralph Waldo
Emerson Bicentennial Conference. CUNY Graduate Center NY, NY.
April 29, 2003.
Chair and organizer. "Punishment and Feeling in the Memoirs
of Stephen
Burroughs." Paper on "The Burronite's Hay-Mow Sermon." Society
of Early
Americanists (SEA). Providence, RI. April 12, 2003.
"U.S. Women's Oratory Before 1848." American Studies Association
(ASA).
Houston, TX November 15, 2002.
"Laughter and Loss: The Devolution of James Russell Lowell's
Birdofredum
Sawin" Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA).
Toronto,
Canada. April 11, 2002.
"Caleb Bingham and The Lectures." Conference of College
Composition and
Communication (CCCC). Chicago, IL. March 21, 2002
Invitational Lecture: "He Made Us Laugh Some': Frederick
Douglass's
Humor" Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI. February 7,
2002.
"A Species of Language: Frederick Douglass's Republican
Rhetoric." American Studies Association (ASA). Washington, DC.
November 11, 2001.
"A New Leviathan: Cooper's View of 1757" Panel on the French and
Indian
War. Conference of the Society of Early Americanists (SEA).
Norfolk, VA.
March 7, 2001
"'We Are No More-We Are Forever'": Little Tree and the
Klan." Panel on
The Lost Cause. Twentieth-Century Conference. University of
Louisville,
KY. February 23, 2001.
"Cato and American Evangelism." Panel on Rome and the American
Enlightenment. American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies
Conference (ASECS). University of Notre Dame. April 2, 1998.
Panelist on American Subcultures. Twentieth-Century
Conference.
University of Louisville, KY. February 28, 1998.
"Grateful Dead and the Sound of Enthusiasm." Southwest Popular
Culture
Association. Lubbock,Texas. January 30, 1998.
"Emerson and Collective Identity." Thoreau Society Panel. MLA
Convention.
Toronto, Canada. December 30, 1997.
"Voices of Instruction: Oratory and Discipline in Cooper's
The Last of the
Mohicans and The Redskins." James Fenimore Cooper:
His Country and
His Art: 1997 James Fenimore Cooper Symposium. Oneonta, NY.
July 11, 1997.
"Battles of Rhetoric: Oratory and Identity in Cooper's The
Last of the
Mohicans." Cooper Society Panel. American Literature
Association (ALA).
Baltimore, MD May 24, 1997.
Respondent. "The International Dimensions of the Harlem
Renaissance."
Remapping the Harlem Renaissance, SUNY Westbury. October 25,
1996.
"Emerson and the Transformation of the Postmillennial
Citizen."
Undisciplined: A Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center. April 22,
1996.
"Passing f/or Queer? The Uranian Aesthetics of Wallace Thurman."
National
Association of African-American Scholars, Houston. February 15,
1996.
"To Do What's Right: The Anti-Liberal Rhetoric of Frederick
Douglass." MLA
Convention, Chicago. December 28, 1995.
Panel introduction and organizer. "Oratory and
Nineteenth-Century American
Fiction." MLA Convention, Toronto. December 29, 1993.
"Cornel West and How Intellectuals Matter." The Role of the
Intellectual
Conference, City University of New York, November 12, 1993.
"Paul Maas, Sigmund Freud, and the Systematized Follies of
The Crying of
Lot 49." Twentieth-Century Conference, University of
Louisville.
February 26, 1993.
Co-Organizer, "Fatality and Banality in Cultural Studies."
National
Conference, CUNY Cultural Studies Program,1991.
Student Advising
2004-present: D.A. Advisor, Brian Quinn, AEarly Dutch Travel
Narratives.
2003-present: Faculty Advisor, St. John=s Humanities Review.
2002-2005: D.A. Advisor, Angela Silva. AFrom the Passionate to
the Revolutionary: Hyperboredom in Bronte, Chekhov, and West."
2001-2005: D.A Advisor, Steve Leone. ACybernetics and
Literature: an Exploration of Mind and Body.
2003-4: M.A. Advisor, Paul Devlin, ASubliming Wittgenstein,
Emerson, and Hemingway.
2003-4: McNair Advisor, Sarah Davis, ATechnology and Prophecy in
U.S. Religion.
2003-4: McNair Advisor, Rose Gorman, ASubstance Abuse and
Modernist Literary Style.
2003: D.A.Reader, Judy Fagan. Dissertation on the Blues and
African American Women
2001-2003: D.A. Advisor, Rhona Mollard. ATestaments of
Colonialism: Six NativeAmerican Novels.