Dr. Rich Gray 

Rich Gray, Ph.D. (Ohio University) has been at Montreat College since 1975 and is Professor of English. 

Rich’s specialty is literature of the United States, and he teaches courses covering Puritan Ann Bradstreet, Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, gothic poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, the novels of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, and American Catholic writers Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor.  His current writing project is an article titled “Walker Percy’s Sacramental World” exploring priests and dwellings as emblems of spiritual searching in Percy’s six novels. One interesting note is that Percy’s best novel, The Second Coming, mentions Montreat four times.

Dr. Gray also teaches English Composition and Survey of English Literature.  His favorite English author is Jane Austen.  He is a leader in the Conference on Christianity and Literature, southeastern region, hosting the Conference at Montreat College three times. His church home is Swannanoa Valley Presbyterian, where he recently taught classes on the character of Peter and the growth of missionary vision in the Book of Acts.