English Department Faculty

Dr. Sharon L. Gravett

Professor and Assistant Vice-President of Academic Affairs

Office: West Hall 120

Phone: 333-5993

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PhD, Duke University, 1989
Author of articles on Toni Morrison, Henry David Thoreau, Scott Turow, and Carl Hiaasen and such films as Double Indemnity, Body Heat, Blade Runner, Citizen Kane, and The Moderns .
Her chapter "Novels and Other Fictional Accounts" appeared in The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research .
Author of the Introduction to the University of Nebraska's reprinting of John DeForest's Civil War novel, Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty .
Wrote Instructor's Manual sections for HarperCollins World Reader on The Early Americas, The United States, and Australia/New Zealand. Her publications and papers reflect her interest in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, film, and American Civil War literature.