Shelby Grantham

Senior Lecturer in English

Ph.D., University of Virginia


Shelby.Grantham@Dartmouth.edu

I teach writing. It's the second-best way I know to figure things out--such as what to do about racism, how to make non-violence a national priority, why so few students think they can make a difference, what poetry is good for, when and how to resist injustice, ways to share the planet with other species, and what gender has to do with anything.  Seeking words to make such questions ring and their answers sing is what my English 5 sections are about.

Courses

• English 5: Literature and Composition
• English 6: Essay Writing
• English 7: War without Violence, Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry, The Animal Contract, others

Selected Publications

• "Burning Robe" and "Turkey Day" in Poems from the Heron Clan, Katherine James, 1999
•  Dartmouth, UPNE, 1990
• "Intimate Collaboration," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, 1985
• "The Greatest Problem in American Biology," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, 1983
• "Colonial Printers," Early American Life, 1980
• "Johnny Can't Write? Who Cares?," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, 1977