ph.D.
American Studies – University of Iowa
About
Samuel Graber earned a Master of Arts and Religion from the Yale Divinity School and a PhD from the University of Iowa. He currently holds Valparaiso’s W.C. Dickmeyer Professorship in Christian Education. A former Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow, Professor Graber’s interests include nineteenth-century literature and culture, the American Civil War, transatlantic studies, memory studies, and religion. In Christ College, he teaches the First-Year Program; Word & Image; African American Literature; Literatures of Freedom; Literature at the Movies; American Identity; Interpretation: Self, Culture, Society; and American War Literature. His first book, Twice-Divided Nation: National Memory, Transatlantic News, and American Literature in the Civil War Era, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2019. He’s also published essays in numerous scholarly journals and collections, including ESQ, The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Literary Cultures of the American Civil War, and The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. He’s currently working on a book entitled “Walt Whitman and the Body of Christ.”
