The Director of American Studies is Carlo Rotella, Professor of English. He teaches American literature, American Studies, urban literatures and cultures, and creative nonfiction writing.
He is the author of October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature,
Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust
Belt, and Cut Time: An Education at the Fights. His writing has appeared
in Critical Inquiry, American Quarterly, The American Scholar, Transition,
Raritan, TriQuarterly, DoubleTake, Harper's, The Washington Post Magazine, The
New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Best American
Essays.
