Ellen Gruber Garvey on Ghost Stories of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Monday, May 11, 2020


Thomas Thurston talks with Ellen Gruber Garvey on her project titled “Ghost Stories of the Transatlantic Slave Trade”


Ellen Gruber Garvey is the author of Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks: from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance. She recently retired as an English professor at New Jersey City University, where she co-edited the journal Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy

She has written about nineteenth century media through many forms and issues — magazines, advertising, and women who edited magazines. She has worked as a journalist, printer, and editor; she has taught at the University of Paris 8, Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Massachusetts; and has held the Fulbright Walt Whitman Distinguished Chair in American Literature at Radboud University in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Her PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania; her  MA from the University of Massachusetts.