Leonard Cassuto
Welcome to my Official Website. I teach American literature at Fordham University and write about subjects ranging from crime fiction to the scientific search for room-temperature semiconductors. I also write a column for The Chronicle of Higher Education called The Graduate Adviser. You’ll find links leading to many of my articles on this site. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter.
My latest book
Academic Writing as if Readers Matter
My new book comes out this September from Princeton University Press. It’s opinionated and (I hope) instructive and entertaining at the same time. It’s about how to write well, and why we must— because we’re all in this together. You can pre-order it here
Other recent books:
The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education
This book examines the failed graduate school reforms of the past and presents a plan for a practical and sustainable PhD.
Buy the book.The Cambridge History of The American Novel
Edited by me, Clare Virginia Eby and Benjamin Reiss, this literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present. This book was published in 2011.
“… an innovative approach that is bound to prove as stimulating as the best of American fiction already does.” — Contemporary Review
Buy the book.The Cambridge Companion to Baseball
Winner of a 2012 Book Award from the North American Society of Sports Historians (NASSH).
Here’s a video of me talking about the book:
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