With a Doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Pepi Leistyna is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics Graduate Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he coordinates the research program and teaches courses in cultural studies, media literacy, and language acquisition. Pepi has published articles in a wide range of journals and his books include: Breaking Free: The Transformative Power of Critical Pedagogy; Presence of Mind: Education and the Politics of Deception; Defining and Designing Multiculturalism; Cultural Studies: From Theory to Action; and Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use. His forthcoming books are entitled Laughing Matters: Entertainment Television’s Mockery of the Working Class, and Public Schooling: A Battleground for Class Warfare. He is co-editor of Book Smarts, and is a member of the editorial board of: Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education; Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination; Public Resistance; Radical Teacher; The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies; and Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. His recent documentary film is called Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class for which he is the 2007 recipient of the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism.
E-mail Pepi Leistyna at pleistyna@hotmail.com
