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Gerald Graff

Gerald Graff is an influential American literary critic, educator, and professor emeritus of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, known for advocating 'teaching the conflicts' in education to engage students with academic debates.[2][3] His seminal works include Professing Literature: An Institutional History (1987), Beyond the Culture Wars (1992), and the widely adopted writing textbook They Say/I Say (2006), co-authored with Cathy Birkenstein.[1][5] He has held prominent positions at universities like Northwestern and the University of Chicago, served as president of the Modern Language Association in 2008, and influenced curricular reform through lectures and organizations like Teachers for a Democratic Culture.[3][4]

Chicago, IL, USA Jun 28, 1937 Wikipedia Website
Literary Criticism Education Academic Writing
"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
2014
 They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
2009
 Professing Literature: An Institutional History
Professing Literature: An Institutional History
2008
 Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
2003
 The Norton Introduction to Literature and "They Say/I Say"
The Norton Introduction to Literature and "They Say/I Say"
2016