Carlo Rotella

english department

Professor of English

B.A., Wesleyan University
Ph.D., Yale University

Carney Hall 451
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617-552-3191
Fax: 617-552-4220
Email: rotellca@bc.edu

Academic Profile

Specializes in American Studies, urban literature and culture, American literature, and creative nonfiction writing.

Courses

EN172 - The City in Literature and Film
EN277 - Introduction to American Studies
EN550 - Advanced Nonfiction Workshop: Writing for Magazines
EN746 - The City in American Literature and Culture

Additional Professional Information

Professor Rotella is Director of the American Studies Program and Director of the Lowell Humanities Series. 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 an editor of the "Chicago Visions and Revisions" series at the University of Chicago Press. He writes for the New York Times Magazine and the Washington Post Magazine, 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 Boston Globe, Transition, Harper's, DoubleTake, Boston, Slate, The Believer, TriQuarterly, and The Best American Essays.

Publications (Selected)

Books

Cut Time: An Education at the Fights (Houghton Mifflin, 2003).
Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt (University of California Press, 2002).
October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (University of California Press, 1998).

English Department