11 Facts About Gerald Graff

Gerald Graff was born on 1937 and is a professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Gerald Graff received his B A in English from the University of Chicago in 1959 and his Ph.

Gerald Graff 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.

Gerald Graff has been teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 2000.

Gerald Graff has discussed things like his own dislike of books at an early age and the way in which academic discourse is needlessly obscure.

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Gerald Graff is the founder of Teachers for a Democratic Culture, an organization dedicated, in their words, to "combating conservative misrepresentations" of college pedagogy.

Gerald Graff coined the term "teach the controversy" in his college courses in the 1980s and later set the idea in print in his 1993 book Beyond The Culture Wars.

Gerald Graff teaches both graduate courses on teaching undergraduate writing and undergraduate writing courses.

Gerald Graff teaches writing courses with his wife, Cathy Birkenstein, who is a lecturer in English and received her Ph.

Also, while at the University of Chicago, Gerald Graff co-founded the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, a one-year interdisciplinary program, allowing students to take courses in philosophy, English, art history, and other fields.

Gerald Graff was president of the Modern Language Association in 2008.