Richard Schramm

Richard Schramm is Vice President for Education Programs with the National Humanities Center, where he previously served in various executive management positions. Dr. Schramm served as adjunct professor of English and a Coordinator for Program in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a consultant to five U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History projects in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Minnesota, and to the NEH Humanities Faculty Workshop in Vermont. Schramm is author of numerous publications, including James Agee in Southern Writers: a Biographical Dictionary; James Agee in Fifty Southern Writers after 1900; and reviews of Reynolds Price’s Early Dark in Southern Exposure and “The Restless Journey of James Agee” in the Southern Humanities Review.  Schramm holds three degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: a B.A. and M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in American Literature with a dissertation entitled James Agee and the South.