Cut Time: An Education at the Fights

Carlo Rotella is an American nonfiction writer and professor of American Studies, English, and journalism at Boston College, born circa 1965 in Chicago. Raised on Chicago's South Side by a Sicilian-American father and Spanish mother, both academics, he graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in 1983, earned his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. His notable works explore urban life, boxing, music, and the Rust Belt, and he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Whiting Writers' Award, and other honors, contributing regularly to the New York Times Magazine.