Gregg Hecimovich is a professor in the Department of English at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He served as chair of the department from 2018 to 2022. Hecimovich is the author of four books including the forthcoming The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2023). He has received fellowships from the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Additionally, Hecimovich held a Public Scholar Fellowship appointment from National Endowment for the Humanities.
He earned his BA at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, where he won the Louis D. Rubin Jr. Prize for most outstanding creative writer in his graduating class and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude in both English Literature and Creative Writing. He earned his MA and PhD at Vanderbilt University where he was awarded the Graduate Student of the Year Award. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards including the University of North Carolina Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award and the Max Ray Joyner Award for innovative teaching with technology. He received his Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University.
Education
- B.A., University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
- M.A., Vanderbilt University
- Ph.D., Vanderbilt University