CONTRIBUTOR:

David Grant

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

English

INSTITUTION:

MacEwan University

BIOGRAPHY:

David Grant is a professor in the department of English at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1992 under the supervision of Professor Michael Millgate. He is the author of Political Antislavery Discourse and American Literature of the 1850s (University of Delaware Press, 2012). He has articles published in scholarly journals on such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. He has recently completed a manuscript about party discourse and the antebellum editions of Leaves of Grass.