LEISTYNA, Pepi 1963-

PERSONAL:

Born May 31, 1963, in Oneida, NY; son of Joseph (a pediatrician) and Rita (a nurse; maiden name, Geoffrion) Leistyna; married Susan Kubik (a chef). Education: University of Dijon, diplomas, 1984, 1985; University of Angers, diploma, 1985; University of Bourgogne, certificate, 1986; University of Massachusetts—Amherst, B.A., 1986, B.A., 1987; Harvard University, M.Ed., 1992, Ed.D., 1998.

ADDRESSES:

Home—111 Hatherly Rd., Scituate, MA 02066. Office—University of Massachusetts—Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02033. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Berlitz International Language School, Boston, MA, teacher of French, 1988-89; English Language Center, Boston, teacher of English as a second language, 1989-94; Salem State College, Salem, MA, visiting lecturer in English, 1995; University of Massachusetts—Boston, lecturer, 1995-97, assistant professor, 1998-2004, associate professor, 2004—, and coordinator of research program of applied linguistics graduate studies. Arizona State University, research fellow at educational policy research unit, 2001—. Teacher of English as a second language at Brookline Adult and Community Education, 1989-91, and Boston Conservatory, 1990; workshop presenter; guest on media programs. Citizens Media Corp., board member, 2001-03; Immigrant Learning Center, Inc., board member, 2001—; Human Rights Working Group, board member, 2001—; Thoreau Institute, board member, 2003—; Action Coalition for Media Education, board member and vice president of curriculum development, 2004—.

MEMBER:

Working Class Studies Association, Association of Cultural Studies, Free Press, Global Exchange, Center for Constitutional Rights, Public Citizen, National Association of Bilingual Education, Amnesty International, American Civil Liberties Union.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Roy E. Larson research fellowship, Harvard University, 1992; National Conference for Community and Justice scholarship, 2001-02; grant from and Haymarket People's Fund, 2003.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with A. Woodrum and S. Sherblom, and contributor) Breaking Free: The Transformative Power of Critical Pedagogy, Harvard Publishing Group (Cambridge, MA), 1996.

Presence of Mind: Education and the Politics of Deception, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 1999.

Defining and Designing Multiculturalism: One Public School System's Efforts, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2002.

(Editor, with Charles Meyer, and coauthor of preface) Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use, Rodopi Press (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2003.

(Editor and contributor) Cultural Studies: From Theory to Action, Blackwell Publishing (Malden, MA), 2004.

Contributor to books, including Rethinking Intelligence: Confronting Psychological Assumptions about Teaching and Learning, edited by J. Kincheloe, S. Steinberg, and L. Villaverde, Routledge (New York, NY), 1999; Critical Ethnicity: Countering the Waves of Identity Politics, edited by R. Tai and M. Kenyatta, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1999; Multi-Intercultural Conversations: A Reader, edited by S. Steinberg and J. Kincheloe, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 2001; Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools, edited by K. Saltman and D. Gabbard, Routledge (New York, NY), 2003; and Teaching Peter McLaren: Paths of Descent, edited by M. Pruyn and L. Huerta-Charles, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 2004. Contributor to periodicals, including Harvard Educational Review, Bilingual Research Journal, Urban Review: Quarterly Journal of Issues and Ideas in Public Education, Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, International Journal of Educational Reform, Cultural Circles, CambridgeChronicle, and Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies. Associate editor, Journal of English Linguistics, 1999—; guest editor, Teacher Education Quarterly and Workplace: Journal for Academic Labor, both 2003; member of editorial board, Harvard Educational Review, 1993-95, Taboo: Journal of Culture and Education, 1997—, Radical Teacher, 2004—, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2004—, and SIMILE Journal: Studies in Media and Information Literacy, 2002—.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Racenicity: The Whitewashing of Ethnicity; Laughing Matters: Network TV's Mockery of the Working Class; a documentary film, Class Dismissed, for Media Education Foundation.