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, most recently he published Searching for Literacy: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies (2022) My Life with Literacy: The Continuing Education of a Historian. The Intersections of the Personal, the Political, the Academic, and Place (2024). Reconstructing the “Uni-versity’ from the Ashes of the “Multi- and Mega-versity’ is to be published in October 2025, and his edited book Changing Paths of Academic Lives: Revising How We Understand Higher Education, 1960s to 2020s and Beyond, a collection of original first-person essays, was published in August 2025.
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
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