Carlo Rotella
Professor
Biography
Professor Rotella writes for the New York Times Magazine, he has been a regular columnist for the Boston Globe and radio commentator for WGBH FM, and his work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Critical Inquiry, American Quarterly, The American Scholar, Raritan, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post Magazine, Transition, Harper’s, DoubleTake, Boston, Slate, The Believer, TriQuarterly, and The Best American Essays. He has held Guggenheim, Howard, and Du Bois fellowships and received the Whiting Writers Award, the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, and The American Scholar's prizes for Best Essay and Best Work by a Younger Writer, and Cut Time was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grants from the State Department to lecture in China and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a founding editor of the “Chicago Visions and Revisions” series at the University of Chicago Press.
Official evaluation summary
Courses taught
- ENGL1735 The Meaning of Boston: Literature and Culture
- ENGL2133 Studies in Narrative
- ENGL1079 Literature Core for Multilingual Students
- ENGL1010 First Year Writing Seminar
- ENGL5577 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: The Culture Beat
- ENGL9921 PhD Seminar: Imagining the City
- JOUR2299 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: The Culture Beat
- ENGL5513 American Studies Senior Seminar
- JOUR4599 Readings and Research