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Front Matter
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Intersections of the Personal, the Political, the Academic, and Place
Chapter 1. Endings from Beginnings: A Culmination of Learning and Practice
Chapter 2. First Formations: Early Years in Pittsburgh, 1949–1963
Chapter 3. Coming of Age in Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill, and Taylor Allderdice High School, 1963–1967
Chapter 4. Northwestern University and Chicago: Higher and Wider Learning, Inside and Outside Classrooms, 1967–1970
Chapter 5. The Great Canadian Adventure, the New Social History, and Beginning to Study Literacy, 1970–1975
Chapter 6. A Not-So-Great Migration to Big D, Dallas, Texas: New Frontiers, New University, New City, 1975–1979
Chapter 7. Interlude: In Exile at the Newberry Library and Chicago, 1979–1981
Chapter 8. Dallas and UTD: Negotiating a Return and Beginning Again, 1981–1998
Chapter 9. San Antonio: Flirting With and Separating From Administration, 1998–2004
Chapter 10. Transitions and Challenges in Mid-Career: The Ohio State University and Columbus, 2004–2017
Epilogue. Intersecting Endings and Beginnings
Afterword. Near Final Reflections on Literacy and Literacy Studies, 2022: Excerpts From Searching for Literacy: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies
Epilogue. Many Paths, Many Futures
References
Appendix: Harvey J. Graff Curriculum Vitae
About the Author
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.
Practices & Possibilities
Series Editors: Aimee McClure, Clarke University; Kelly Ritter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aleashia Walton, University of Cincinnati; and Jagadish Paudel, University of Texas at El Paso
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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. He considers the inextricable interconnections of personal experiences and relationships; the political, broadly defined to include life-shaping contexts and historical events, influences, values, commitments, and experiences; the social, intellectual, and political dimensions of academics and scholarship—a life of learning and using literacy and literacies; and the circumstances of living in six major cities and studying and then teaching in five universities. Graff’s pioneering scholarship in the history of literacy and literacy studies provides both the frame and the foundation for his work in the history of children and youth; the history of cities; higher education past, present, and future; and interdisciplinarity itself.