Gerald Graff is the author of the polemical work Literature against Itself (Chicago University Press, 1979). He is a professor of English at Northwestern University.
Thanks to David Mamet’s new play Oleanna, the distracted, bumbling and self-regarding male professor has now become the archetypal victim of political correctness. Mamet’s John is...
In March 1889 Edward Arber applied for the vacant chair of English Literature and Language at University College London. Arber’s career had been unusual. He began his working life at 17 as...
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