| Recent Honors |
| 2008 |
Serving as President of the Modern Language Association. |
| 2004 |
Three sessions on "Cluelessness," inspired
by Clueless in Academe,
to be sponsored by the MLA
Division on the Teaching of Literature at the annual
convention in Philadelphia in December.
One of these panels will be on the book, with Graff
as a respondent.
|
| 2003 |
Selected to contribute the essay on the English doctorate--
"The Ph.D. in English: Towards a New Consensus"--as
part of the Carnegie
Initiative on the Doctorate, by the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching. read
essay |
| 2003 |
Symposium, “Teaching the Conflicts at Twenty
Years” (Steve Benton, Jane Tompkins, Jeffrey Wallen,
Robin Valenza, David R. Shumway, Craig Stroupe, with a
response by Graff), Pedagogy 3, no. 2 (Spring, 2003),
pp. 245-73. |
| 2001 |
Conference session on my work: "Conflicts, Culture
Wars, Curriculum: A Roundtable on Gerald Graff,"
Modern Language Association annual meeting, New Orleans,
December, 2001. |
| 2001 |
Essay "Taking Cover in Coverage" included
in The
Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Vincent
Leitch, et. al., eds. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001),
pp. 2056-2066. |
| Education |
|
1959
1963 |
A.B. University of
Chicago, (English)
Ph.D., Stanford University,
(English and American Literature) |
| Professional Experience |
| 1963-66 |
University of New
Mexico, Assistant Professor
|
| 1966-91 |
Northwestern
University
Associate Professor, 1970
Professor, 1979-1991
John C. Shaffer Professor of English and Humanities,
1980-91
|
| 1974-75 |
Visiting Professor, University
of California at Irvine |
| 1980-81 |
Visiting Professor, University
of California at Berkeley |
| 1986 |
Visiting Professor, Ohio
State University |
| 1988 |
Hurst Visiting Professor, Washington
University |
| 1991-2000 |
George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of
English and Education, University
of Chicago |
2000--
|
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University
of Illinois at Chicago
Associate Dean of Curriculum and Instruction 2000--
Professor of English and Education 2000-2002
|
| Administrative experience |
1977-83
1985-87
1982-85 |
Chairman of English Department, Northwestern University
Director, Northwestern
University Press
Co- Director, Northwestern University Press |
| 1996-1999 |
Director, Master
of Arts Program in the Humanities, University of Chicago |
| 2000-2 |
Associate Dean of Curriculum and Instruction, College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at
Chicago |
| Service as Program Reviewer |
| |
University of
Pittsburgh, English Department
University
of Massachusetts at Amherst English Department
Carnegie Mellon English
Department
Marquette
University English Department
Queens
College, N. Y. World Studies Program
University
of Arizona English Department
Valparaiso
University English Department (MLA/FIPSE Project)
Colgate University
(twice)
Arizona State
University
Arizona
University
Columbia
University |
| Honors and Awards |
| 2003 |
Selected to contribute the essay on the English doctorate--
"The Ph.D. in English: Towards a New Consensus"--as
part of the Carnegie
Initiative on the Doctorate, by the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching. read
essay |
| 2001 |
Essay "Taking Cover in Coverage" included
in The
Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Vincent
Leitch, et. al., eds. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001),
pp. 2056-2066. |
| 2001 |
One of three nominees for Second Vice-President (eventually
President), Modern Language
Association |
| 2001 |
Conference session on my work: "Conflicts, Culture
Wars, Curriculum: A Roundtable on Gerald Graff,"
Modern Language Association annual meeting, New Orleans,
December, 2001. |
| 1999-2000 |
Spencer Foundation Research Grant |
| 1994-95 |
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences, Stanford California |
| 1993 |
Frederick W. Ness Prize of the American Association
of Colleges and Universities, 1993, for Beyond the Culture
Wars |
| 1992 |
NEH Fellow, Newberry
Library, March-August, 1977
Beyond the Culture Wars chosen as a Reader's Subscription
Book Club Selection, 1992
American Book Award for 1992 from the Before Columbus
Foundation, for Beyond the Culture Wars |
| 1990- |
Elected to Modern Language Association Executive Council
Elected to MLA Division on Literary Criticism |
| 1988-90 |
Executive Committee, Illinois
Humanities Council
National Advisory Council, Association of American Colleges
|
| 1988-89 |
Fellow, Harvard University Center for Literary and Cultural
Studies |
| 1983-84 |
Board of Judges, Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa
Society |
| 1983-84 |
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Research Fellowship |
| 1983 |
Named John C. Shaffer Professor of Humanities and English |
| 1981 |
Illinois Arts Council Award for best essay by an Illinois
writer for "Under Our Belt and Off Our Back,"
TriQuarterly (Fall, 1981) |
| 1980 |
Elected to MLA Division
on 20th Century British Literature,Chairman of Division,
1983-84 |
| 1979 |
Pushcart Press Award for essay, "The Politics of
Anti-Realism," Salmagundi (Summer-Fall, 1978) |
| 1979 |
Literature Against Itself (Chicago, 1979) named Readers'
Subscription Book Club Selection |
| 1977 |
NEH Fellow, Newberry Library |
| 1975 |
Illinois
Arts Council Award for best essay by an Illinois writer
in 1975, for "Babbitt at the Abyss," TriQuarerly |
| Editorial boards |
| |
TriQuarterly
Salmagundi
Works and Days
American
Literary History |
| Major discussions of my work |
| 2003 |
Symposium, “Teaching the Conflicts at Twenty
Years” (Steve Benton, Jane Tompkins, Jeffrey Wallen,
Robin Valenza, David R. Shumway, Craig Stroupe, with a
response by Graff), Pedagogy 3, no. 2 (Spring, 2003),
pp. 245-73. |
| 2001 |
Essay "Taking Cover in Coverage" included
in The
Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Vincent
Leitch, et. al., eds. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001),
pp. 2056-2066. |
| 2001 |
Luchen Li, "Gerald Graff," Twentieth-Century
American Cultural Theorists: Dictionary of Literary Biography,
volume 246 (Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc.,
2001), pp. 1-10. |
| 1989 |
George Levine, "Graff Revisited," Raritan,
VIII, 4 (Spring, 1989), pp. 121-33. William Cain, ed.,
Teaching the Conflicts: Gerald Graff, Curricular Reform,
and the Culture Wars (New York: Garland Press, 1993). |
