Gerald Graff
Professor, Author
1937 –
Who is Gerald Graff?
Gerald Graff is a professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Chicago in 1959 and his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University in 1963. He has taught at the University of New Mexico, Northwestern University, the University of California at Irvine and at Berkeley, as well as Ohio State University, Washington University, and the University of Chicago. He has been teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 2000.
Graff's earlier works emphasized literature's rational, discursive qualities, and in Literature Against Itself he took aim at what he saw as the anti-mimetic, irrationalist assumptions underlying both avant-garde writing and structuralist/poststructuralist critical theory. Graff's emphasis on literature as rational statement bears comparison with the theories of Yvor Winters, his professor at Stanford in the 1960s.
Graff's later research has a heavy focus on pedagogy. He has discussed things like his own dislike of books at an early age and the way in which academic discourse is needlessly obscure. Dr. Graff is also the founder of Teachers for a Democratic Culture, an organization dedicated, in their words, to "combating conservative misrepresentations" of college pedagogy.
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- Born
- Jun 28, 1937
Chicago - Also known as
- Gerald Edward Graff
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Stanford University
English and American Literature
( - 1963) - University of Chicago
- PhD, Stanford University
- Employment
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- Lived in
- Illinois
(1966 - )
- Illinois
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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