Harvey J. Graff

Harvey J. Graff is Professor Emeritus of English and History, inaugural Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies, and Academy Professor, Ohio State University. Author of many books on literacy, children and youth, cities, and interdisciplinarity, his new Reconstructing the new “uni-versity” from the ashes of the “multi- and mega-versity” is due later in 2025. His edited collection of first-person essays, Changing Paths of Academic Lives, from the 1960s to the 2020s is also forthcoming.

Against Book Banning & Education Restrictions: Our Moment of Rising Resistance

Contradictions without Dialectics: Debating Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

Debased Language, Degraded Politics: Searching for Conservatism, Finding It Nowhere

Lessons from the 1960s: Paths to Rediscovering Universities

New Campus Wars, 2024: A View from Ohio State

The Myth of the Left-wing Professors

Unprecedented Times, or Media Narrative
Against the Current No. 228, January/February 2024

Our Movement of Rising Resistance
Against the Current No. 225, July/August 2023

Paths to Rediscovering Universities
Against the Current, No. 223, March/April 2023

Book Banning Past and Present
Against the Current, No. 218, May/June 2022