David Jolliffe is Professor of English and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Arkansas, where he also holds the Brown Chair in English Literacy. Since coming to Arkansas in 2005, he has developed the Arkansas Delta Oral History Project, in which high school students from throughout Eastern Arkansas collaborate with university students on planning, carrying out, transcribing, and writing about oral history interviews, and he has established a demonstration site of the Community Literacy Advocacy Project in Augusta, Arkansas, a small town where the schools, churches, businesses, libraries, literacy councils, and economic development councils are working in a concerted effort to raise the profile of reading and writing. From 1994 to 2005, Jolliffe was on the faculty of DePaul University, where he taught courses regularly for the Steans Center for Community-Based Service Learning. From 1984 to 1994, he taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he served on the board of directors for the UIC Center for Literacy.