Academics

Faculty & Staff

Pepi Leistyna, EdD

  • Professor of Applied Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
  • Telephone: 617-287-6737
  • Office Location: Wheatley Hall,06,00078

Areas of Expertise

Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and Media Literacy.

Degrees

EdD in Teaching and Learning, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class. A documentary film project by Pepi Leistyna, written and produced with Loretta Alper, executive producer Sut Jhally, narrated by Ed Asner, 2005.
  • Cultural Studies: From Theory to Action (Ed.). (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2004).
  • Presence of Mind: Education and the Politics of Deception. (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1999).
  • (P. Leistyna, A. Woodrum, and S. Sherblom, Eds.) Breaking Free: The Transformative Power of Critical Pedagogy. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Publishing Group, 1996 -- third printing in 1999.)

Additional Information

Research Interests:

Professor Leistyna's main areas of interest include critical pedagogy, cultural studies, and media literacy.

Courses taught:

APLING 603 Cross Cultural Perspectives

APLING 605 Theories and Principles of Language Teaching

APLING 618 Teaching ESL: Methods and Approaches

APLING 623 Sociolinguistics

APLING 624 Language and the Media: Semiotics, Representations, and Discursive Formation

APLING 635 Literacy and Culture