The Groves of Academe is a 1952 novel written by American writer Mary McCarthy.

[1] It concerns the sequence of events that takes place after Henry Mulcahy, a literary instructor at the fictitious Jocelyn College, learns that his teaching appointment will not be renewed.

The novel is intended as a satire of academics based on the author's teaching experiences at Bard and Sarah Lawrence Colleges.

The book is prefaced by a quote from Horace's Epistles, Atque inter silvas academi quaerere verum, which translates from the Latin as "And seek for truth in the groves of Academus."

[citation needed] The work is written in the third person, omniscient narrative mode and begins from Henry Mulcahy's perspective, but later focuses on the perspectives of the other faculty members, particularly Domna Rejnev.