Elizabeth Elkin Grammer

Elizabeth Elkin Grammer is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of the South. She earned her A.B. from Davidson College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Her work focuses on American literature, particularly African American writers and the intersections of literature and religion.

• Education: A.B., Davidson College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
• Key Research Areas: American literature, African American literature, religious narratives, Southern history

Professor Grammer authored the acclaimed book Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2003). Her essays and reviews have appeared in journals such as Arizona Quarterly, The Journal of Southern History, and American Historical Review. She also directs the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, established in 1993.