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Books

 Poetic Statement and Critical Dogma (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970); reprinted with new preface (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980).

 Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1979); reprinted in new edition, with new preface, Ivan Dee Books, 1995.  buy

 Professing Literature: An Institutional History (University of Chicago Press, 1987).  buy

Beyond the Culture Wars; How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education (W.W. Norton, 1992). buy

Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind (Yale University Press, 2003).  buy  reviews

"They Say/ I Say": The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing with Cathy Birkenstein (Norton, 2006).  buy

Books edited

Criticism in the University, ed., Gerald Graff and Reginald Gibbons (Northwestern University Press, 1985).

The Origins of Literary Study in America, ed., Gerald Graff and Michael Warner, (Routledge, January 1989).

Jacques Derrida, Limited Inc, ed. Gerald Graff (Northwestern University Press, 1988); French trans. Elisabeth Weber (Paris: Galilee, 1990); contains an interview with Derrida by Graff.  buy 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Samuel Clemens, ed. Gerald Graff and James Phelan (Boston: Bedford Books, Critical Controversies Edition, 1995).  buy

The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, ed. Gerald Graff and James Phelan (Boston, Bedford Books, Critical Controversies Edition, 2000).  buy

American Criticism, 1945-1995, Gerald Graff and Evan Carton, Cambridge History of American Literature, 1996), series ed. Sacvan Bercovitch.

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