Book Talk with Carlo Rotella (Boston College): What Can I Get Out of This? Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics

What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics Book

Date and Time

October 8, 2025
04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

Barker Center, Thompson Room
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Carlo will discuss his new book, What Can I Get Out of This? Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics (University of California Press, 2025). At a time when college students and their parents often question the "return on investment" from humanities courses, accomplished feature writer and English professor Carlo Rotella invites us into the minds of a group of skeptical first-year students who are ultimately transformed by a required literature class.

Event is open to staff, faculty, and students.