Professor of English and Director of the ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵern Studies Program
B.A., Vanderbilt University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
John Grammer has taught classes in British and American Literature, American Studies, and Sewanee’s interdisciplinary Humanities Program. His academic research principally concerns the literature and intellectual history of the U.S. ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, from the age of Thomas Jefferson to the present.
Born and raised in Texas, Professor Grammer received his B.A. at Vanderbilt University and his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. He has taught classes in British and American Literature, American Studies, and Sewanee’s interdisciplinary Humanities Program.
Grammer's 1996 book Pastoral and Politics in the Old ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ won the C. Hugh Holman Award as the best book of the year in ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵern literary study. His essays and reviews have appeared in American Literary History, The ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵern Literary Journal, The Sewanee Review and other journals, and in such books as The Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Encyclopedia of ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵern Culture, and Blackwell's Guide to the Literature and Culture of the American ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ. Formerly chair of the English Department and Director of the Sewanee School of Letters, Grammer now directs Sewanee’s Mellon-funded program in ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵern Studies.
