Professor Graber comes to the English department from the University of Iowa, where he has completed his doctoral degree in American Studies.  This fall, he will be teaching Word and Image in Christ College.  

Professor Graber's research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century American literature and culture, transatlantic studies, national memory, and religion. His dissertation, "Twice-Divided Nation: the Civil War and National Memory in the Transatlantic World" explores how transatlantic communication and the special relationship affected the early cultural representation and commemoration of the American Civil War. 

Professor Graber earned a B.A. in English and American Studies from St. Olaf College, an M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.  He is a postdoctoral fellow in the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts, a two-year teaching and research fellowship for professors at the start of their careers who are interested in the relationship between Christianity and the academic vocation.