Associate Professor
English
St. John Hall, Room B40-8
Queens Campus
(718) 990-5617
ganterg@stjohns.edu
Fall 2011 Office Hours: T, F 9:40am;
2:50-3:20pm
Educational Background
Ph.D., 1998, City University of New York, Graduate Center, English
Literature
M.Phil., 1995, City University of New York, Graduate Center,
English Literature
M.A., 1989, University of Vermont, English Literature
M.A. courses, 1987 Breadloaf School of English, Middlebury
College
B.A., 1983, Boston University, English Literature
Profile
Granville Ganter graduated from the City University of New York in
1998 and joined the faculty at St. John’s. 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 the
major writers of the colonial, early national, and Transcendental
eras. He is the editor of The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or
Red Jacket (Syracuse UP), and won an award for the 2004 best essay
in African American Review, “He Made Us Laugh Some: Frederick
Douglass’s Humor.” He has been awarded fellowships at the American
Antiquarian Society and the New York Historical Society. He is an
advisor for the department’s student-run journal, the St. John’s
Humanities Review.