Harvey Graff

Harvey J. Graff is the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and professor of English and History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century City, The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Society and Culture, Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America, and The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City. He has led the development of interdisciplinary programs in a range of institutions, most recently founding and building LiteracyStudies@OSU, a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative.