Pepi Leistyna is 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. He speaks internationally on issues of democracy, public education, and social justice, and he is the North American representative of the Association for Cultural Studies. 

His forthcoming book is entitled Public Schooling: A Battleground for Class Warfare; his recent documentary film with the Media Education Foundation, Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class, was recently honored with the Studs Terkel Award by the Working-Class Studies Association.  He is, in addition, a research fellow of the Education Policy Research Unit at Arizona State University and of the Education and the Public Interest Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Some of Pepi's Other Books:

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

Corpus Analysis:  Language Structure and Language Use