Book Talk | Carlo Rotella | What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, October 15th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Carlo Rotella. He will discuss his new book What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics with Leonard Cassuto and L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy.
Carlo Rotella is a professor of English, journalism, and American Studies at Boston College. He writes regularly for the New York Times Magazine, and his work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Best American Essays. He has held a Guggenheim fellowship and U.S. State Department grants to lecture in China and Bosnia, and he has received the Whiting Writers Award and the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. He has written books about the postindustrial city, boxing, blues, and urban literature and film, among other subjects. His latest book, What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics, is about what happens in the classroom.
Leonard Cassuto is Professor of English at Fordham University and an award-winning journalist. He has written on topics ranging from science to sports for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more. He is the author or editor of ten books, including The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education, The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It, and Academic Writing as if Readers Matter. Cassuto offers lectures and workshops on academic writing, higher education topics (including graduate education and the liberal arts), and American literature and culture (including the cultural history of toughness, and crime stories, and baseball).
L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy is an associate professor in the Sociology of Education program in the Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science and Humanities at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. He holds a PhD in Public Policy and Sociology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI (2008) and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA (2000). His central line of research concentrates on educational inequality particularly focused on the intersecting roles of race, class, and place. His first book, Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling examined the experiences of low income and racial minority families’ attempts at accessing school-related resources in an affluent suburb. He is currently fielding a multi-site ethnographic study in Westchester County that examines residents’ experiences with housing and schools. His larger research interests include race and racism, gender justice, and community mobilization. His research has appeared in multiple edited volumes and academic journals such as Urban Education, American Educational Research Journal, and Ethnic & Racial Studies. He is a frequent media contributor and public speaker. His insights have been included in Ebony Magazine, The Grio, The Root, US World News Report and on channels such as CNN and Al Jazeera.