Carlo Rotella is an American non-fiction writer and academic.
Carlo Rotella is an American non-fiction writer and academic.
Carlo Rotella is the son of Salvatore Rotella, a chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago originally from Sicily. His mother was from Spain and was a professor of comparative literature at St. Xavier University in Chicago. They lived in South Side, Chicago. [1] He attended the nearby University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. His undergraduate education was at Wesleyan University, and his PhD in American studies from Yale University. He is a professor of American studies, English, and journalism at Boston College. [2]
His books include The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood (University of Chicago Press, 2019); Playing in Time: Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories (University of Chicago Press, 2012); 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). He is co-editor, with Michael Ezra, of The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Rotella writes for the New York Times Magazine. He has been a regular columnist for the Boston Globe and a radio commentator for WGBH-FM. His work has also appeared in Boston, Washington Post Magazine and The New Yorker.
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. 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. For the University of Chicago Press, Rotella was a founding editor of a series titled "Chicago Visions and Revisions".
He is the younger brother of journalist Sebastian Rotella.
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