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Department of English

Dr. T. Gregory Garvey

Department of English
Office: 202A Hartwell Hall
(585) 395-5487; Fax (585)395-2391
tgarvey@brockport.edu

Education:

Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995
M.A., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990
B.A., History, University of the South (Sewanee), 1988

Awards:

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001
Fulbright Senior Scholar, Moscow State University, 2003-2004

Publications:

Critical Conversations: Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America
(forthcoming 2005, University of Georgia Press)

The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform. Ed. T. Gregory Garvey (University of Georgia Press, 2001)

"Emerson, Garrison, and the Value of Roolical Association" (forthcoming from the Massachusetts Historical Society)

"Emerson's Political Spirit and the Problem of Language." In The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform. Ed. T. Gregory Garvey (University of Georgia Press, 2001)

"Frederick Douglass's Change of Opinion on the U.S. Constitution: Abolitionism and the 'Elements of Moral Power.'" ATQ: 19th C. American Literature and Culture, Special edition on Frederick Douglass, 9.3, 1995. 16 pp.

"Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century and the Rhetoric of Social Reform in the 1840s." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (47.2, 2001). 20pp.

"Mediating Citizenship: Emerson, The Cherokee Removals, and the Rhetoric of Nationalism." The Centennial Review 41.3, 1997, 11 pp.

"Two Faces of Emerson: A Review of Recent Scholarship." College Literature 25.1, 1998, 17 pp.

"Introduction: The Emerson Dilemma." in The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform. Ed. T. Gregory Garvey (University of Georgia Press, 2001).

"To Fill Christ's Coach: The Poet and the Pastor in Edward Taylor's Gods
Determinations." Studies in Puritan American Spirituality 5,1995.20pp.

"Risking Reprisal: Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie and the Legitimation of Public Action by Women." ATQ: 19th C. American Literature and Culture 8.4, 1994. 15 pp.

"The Value of Opacity: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Habermas's Discourse Ethics." Philosophy and Rhetoric 33.4, 2000. 37 pp.

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate Introduction and General Education American Literature 1492-1870
Composition
Introduction to Literary Analysis
Introduction to Honors
American Romanticism
Critical Approaches to Literature
Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing
Origins of American Literature 1492-1800
The Transcendentalists
Origins of American Popular Culture
American Literature 1492-1800 (graduates)
American Literature to 1870: The Problem of Authenticity (graduates)
Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Times (graduates
Representing Race in America 1600-1861 (graduates)