Harvey J. Graff is Professor Emeritus of English & History, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies, and Academy Professor, Ohio State University. A comparative social and cultural historian, he has written many books about the history of literacy; children, youth, and families; cities; interdisciplinarity; and higher education. He is now writing a book about Chicago’s many “second cities” and “windy cities,” tentatively titled The Chicago Myth: Reading Chicago Past and Present.
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
I’m with the Banned: An Unseen History of Reading Banned Books
Lessons from the 1960s: Paths to Rediscovering Universities
New Campus Wars, 2024: A View from Ohio State
The Myth of the Left-wing Professors
Past to Present and Possible Futures(1)
Against the Current, No. 243, July/August 2026
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