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Gerald Graff, Professor

Gerald Graff

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Stanford University

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Dr. Graff has written five books and edited six others in a long career advocating ways that educational institutions can close the gap between academic intellectual culture and that of its students and other citizens. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and has lectured or consulted on curricular issues at more than 250 colleges and universities. In 2008, he becomes president of the Modern Language Association Of America.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind

They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (co-written with Cathy Birkenstein-Graff)