Gerald Graff is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research has a heavy focus on pedagogy, and he has discsused things like his own dislike of books at an early age and the way in which academic discourse is needlessly obscure. He splits his teaching between graduate courses on teaching undergraduate writing, and actually doing undergraduate writing courses. While at the University of Chicago, he co-founded the MAPH program, an innovative one-year Master of Arts program that was interdisciplinary in nature, allowing students to take courses in philosophy, English, art history, and other fields.