Ganter, Granville
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Institutional Affiliations: CUNY Graduate Center, St. John's University
See Granvill Ganter’s Alumni Spotlight interview here.
Educational/professional/personal background prior to attending CUNY Graduate Center:
Breadloaf School of English
University of Vermont
MA institution/year: University of Vermont, 1989
Dissertation: Speaking Out: The Legacy of Active Virtue in American Literature, 1800-1850. (1998)
Employment history post PhD/job titles:
1999-present St. John’s, English Dept.
1998-9 St. John’s University, Visiting Prof.
1997-8 Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY Fulltime.
Publications:
Book:
The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket. Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Supplementary Material: <http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~ganterg/redjacket/home.htm>
Articles and Chapters:
“Mistress of Her Affairs: Anne Laura Clarke, Lecturer, 1822-1835.” Under review, American Quarterly.
“No Apology for the Show: Performance and Oratorical Self-Creation in Obama, Douglass, and Ellison” Race and Identity in Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Michael A. Zeitler and Charlene Evans. Edwin Mellen Press, 2011. 16-28.
“Changing the Script: Susanna Rowson, Popular Drama, and Masquerade” in Charlotte Temple and Beyond: New Essays on Susanna Rowson. Ed. Jennifer Desiderio and Desiree Henderson. Studies in American Fiction 38.1-2 (Spring-Fall 2011): 57-75.
“Red Jacket and Native American Literary Nationalism.” Broadening the Native Canon: Remapping the Literary Landscape Ed. Connie Jacobs and Debra Barker. forthcoming.
“Make Your Minds Perfectly Easy”: Sagoyewatha and the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee.” Early American Literature 44.1 (2009): 121-146.
with Hani Sarji, “‘May We Put Forth Our Leaves’: Rhetoric in the School Journal of Mary Ware Allen, a Student of Margaret Fuller’s from 1837-8.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 117.1 (2007): 61-142.
“Red Jacket and the Decolonization of Republican Virtue.” American Indian Quarterly 31.4 (Fall 2007): 559-581.
“The Unexceptional Eloquence of Sarah Josepha Hale.” 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/Greenwood, 2004. 25-43
“’He Made Us Laugh Some’: Frederick Douglass’s Humor.” African American Review 37.4 (Winter 2003): 535-552. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol 235. Bloomfield, MI: Gale Research, 2010.
“Decadence, Sexuality, and the Bohemian Vision of Wallace Thurman.” MELUS 28.2 (Summer 2003): 83-104. Rpt. New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. Australia Tarver and Paula Barnes. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2006. 194-213.
“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. <http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~ganterg/dead.htm>
“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.
“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.
“Rioting, Textuality, and The Crying of Lot 49.” Found Object 2 (Fall 1993): 67-81.<http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~ganterg/ganter-lot49.pdf>
