English Department Faculty

Carlo Rotella

Professor

Department

English

Publications

Books

  • The World Is Always Coming to an End:聽 Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood聽(University of Chicago Press, 2019).
  • Co-editor, with Michael Ezra, The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
  • 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).

Recent articles and chapters

  • ","听New York Times Magazine聽(February 19, 2023):聽 34-38.
  • ","听New York Times Magazine聽(January 8, 2023):聽 16.
  • ","听Washington Post Magazine聽(July 24, 2022):聽 18-27.
  • Washington Post Magazine (April 3, 2022):聽 cover, 10-15.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review 97/4 (Winter 2021/2022):聽 12-22.
  • "Foreword," Wherever I'm At:聽 An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, ed. Donald G. Evans and Robin Metz (Chicago Literary Hall of Fame/After Hours Press, 2022):聽 11-14.
  • Washington Post Magazine (February 7, 2021):聽 20-26.
  • "The Literature of Neighborhood" in The City in American Literature and Culture, ed. Kevin R. McNamara (Cambridge University Press, 2021):聽 57-69.聽
  • "Stuart Dybek and the New Chicago's Literature of Neighborhood" in Chicago:聽 A Literary History, ed. Frederik Kohlert (Cambridge University Press, 2021):聽 400-413.
  • Post Road 37 (Winter 2020).
  • Washington Post Magazine (October 25, 2020):聽 cover, 18-25.
  • Politico (October 22, 2020).
  • Washington Post Magazine (July 18, 2020):聽 18-25.
  • "The 艾可直播 Movie Boom," The City in American Cinema:聽 Post-Industrialism, Urban Culture and Gentrification, ed. Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb (London:聽 Bloomsbury, 2019):聽 153-174.
  • ","听The New Yorker聽(May 22, 2019).
  • ,"听Fortune聽(May 30, 2019).
  • ","听New York Times, May 19, 2019.
  • 鈥淗arry Greb, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, and the Roaring Twenties,鈥澛The Cambridge Companion to Boxing, ed. Gerald Early (Cambridge University Press, 2019):聽 79-89.
  • "',"听Journal of Popular Music Studies聽30.4 (December 2018):聽 5-10.
  • ","听New York Times Magazine聽(December 30, 2018):聽 20.
  • ","听Literary Hub聽(October 12, 2018).聽 聽
  • "Weird Tales,"听Chicago by the Book:聽 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image聽(University of Chicago Press, with the Caxton Club, 2018):聽 100-101.
  • "Urban Literature:聽 A User's Guide,"听Journal of Urban History聽44.4 (July 2018):聽 797-805.
  • "Prefight: The Baddest 49-Year- Old On the Planet" and "Postfight: Your Intelligence Come Up," The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside, ed. Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra (University of Chicago Press, 2017): 1-7, 125-150.
  • 鈥淗arry Greb, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, and the Roaring Twenties,鈥 Cambridge Companion to Boxing, ed. Gerald Early (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
  • ","听New York Times Magazine聽(December 25, 2017)
  • "," catalogue essay for "PlayTime," an exhibition on games at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (October 17, 2017)
  • ",'"听New York Times, September 22, 2017: A25
  • "Foreword," Jack Vance, Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight (Spatterlight Press, 2016 [1983], forthcoming 2016).
  • "Hurtin" (On the Bottle): Margo Price," New York Times Magazine (March 13, 2016): 28-32.
  • "Buddy Emmons," New York Times Magazine (December 27, 2015): 56.
  • "No Dragons, No Zombies," Washington Post Magazine (August 2, 2015): 8-15.
  • "," New York Times Magazine (May 31, 2015): 28-33.
  • "," New York Times Magazine (May 1, 2015):聽
  • 鈥淧rofiling 鈥楳oney,鈥欌 Public Culture 27.1 (January 2015): 7-19.
  • 鈥,鈥 New York Times Magazine (November 2, 2014): 22-27.
  • 鈥淭he Landscape of Home,鈥 Our 艾可直播: Writers Celebrate the City They Love, ed. Andrew Blauner (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013): 290-300.
  • 鈥,鈥 New York Times Magazine (September 15, 2013): 26-32, 53.
  • 鈥,鈥 New York Times Magazine (March 17, 2013): 聽36-39.
  • 鈥,鈥 New York Times Magazine (December 30, 2012): 聽27.
  • 鈥淭he Cult of Micky Ward in Massachusetts,鈥 For the Home Team: 聽Essays on Sport, Community, and Identity, ed. Daniel Nathan (University of Illinois Press, Sport and Society series, 2013).
  • 鈥淭he Case Against Kojak Liberalism,鈥 The Wire: 聽Race, Class, and Genre, ed. Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro (University of Michigan Press, 2012): 聽113-129.
  • "Within Limits: On the Greatness of Magic Slim," Pop When the World Falls Apart, ed. Eric Weisbard (Duke University Press, 2012): 230-239.
  • 鈥淗ollywood on the Charles,鈥 艾可直播 (January, 2012): 39-43.
  • 鈥,鈥 New York Times Magazine (December 25, 2011): 28-29.
  • 鈥,鈥 New York Times Magazine (August 15, 2011): 34-38.
  • 鈥,鈥 New York Times Magazine (April 24, 2011): 24-29.
  • 鈥,鈥欌 New York Times Magazine (December 12, 2010): 聽11-12.
  • 鈥,鈥 New York Times Magazine (November 28, 2010): 50-55.
  • "Ghosts," in My Town: 聽Writers on American Cities (U. S. State Department, forthcoming). Excerpted online.
  • "," Washington Post Magazine (March 21, 2010): cover, 10-17.
  • "," The New Yorker (February 1, 2010): 聽24-29.
  • 鈥淭he End of American Sporting Life,鈥 A New Literary History of America, ed. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors (Harvard University Press, 2009): 聽856-860.
  • "," 艾可直播 (September, 2009): 聽74-79, 134-142.
  • "," New York Times Magazine (July 19, 2009): 聽20-25.
  • "," Washington Post Magazine (July 20, 2008): 聽cover, 8-15, 22-26.
  • "And Now, the Biggest Entertainer in Entertainment," Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine (June 1, 2008): 聽56-61, 87.
  • "Praying for Stones Like This: The Godfather Trilogy," Catholics in the Movies, ed. Colleen McDannell (Oxford University Press, 2007): 227-252.
  • "," 艾可直播 (November 2007): 120-123, 134-139
  • "Pulp History," Raritan 27.1 (Summer 2007): 11-36.
  • "," New York Times Magazine (April 15, 2007): 36-39.
  • "The Two Jameses," The Believer (April, 2007): 49-54.
  • "The Elements of Providence," Washington Post Magazine (September 17, 2006): 24-28, 51-53.
  • "The Kingdom and the Power," 艾可直播 (August 2006): 69-84.