An Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Grant has authored or edited more than two dozen books on these subjects, several of which have become standard course texts on film studies.
Grant is recognized as one of the leading experts on the work of American documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
[1] Grant earned his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in American literature and film studies in 1975.
Grant was also the editor of the New Approaches to Film and Media series, originally with Cambridge University Press and then published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Grant was Editor-in-Chief of the four-volume Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film (Thomson-Gale, 2006), an award-winning reference work involving contributions from 100 scholars around the world.