My Life with Literacy: The Continuing Education of a Historian

Calling My Life With Literacy a ＂new intersectionality,＂ Harvey J. Graff explores both overarching and underlying patterns that connected his development and lived experience from childhood to and through his retirement from the academy.

Harvey J. Graff is Professor Emeritus of English and History, inaugural Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies, and Academy Professor at The Ohio State University. Recognized internationally for his work on literacy studies and education, children and youth, urban studies, and interdisciplinarity, his publications include numerous articles and chapters in edited collections as well as the books The Literacy Myth, The Legacies of Literacy, Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America, The Dallas Myth, Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century, and Searching for Literacy.