Instructor Biography: Lori Rotskoff
LORI ROTSKOFF is a cultural historian, writer, educator, and public speaker specializing in memoirs and narrative nonfiction, childhood and youth, women’s and gender studies, and arts and culture. She studied history and literature at Northwestern University and earned a PhD in American Studies at Yale.
 
Other classes taught
“One Night Only” Book Discussion: Euphoria by Lily King
“One Night Only” Book Discussion: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
A Conversation with Gabrielle Glaser, Author of American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow His
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
An Evening with Anna Quindlen
An Evening with Joy Harjo in Conversation with Lori Rotskoff
Author Conversation with Deirdre Sinnott featuring her debut novel, The Third Mrs. Galway
Author Visit with Dani Shapiro: Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Author Visit: Ann Leary, The Foundling (2022)
Author Visit: Annelise Heinz, Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
Author Visit: Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry (2022)
Author Visit: David Sipress, What’s So Funny?: A Cartoonist’s Memoir (2022)
Author Visit: Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand (2022)
Author Visit: Jason Mott, Hell of a Book (2021)
Author Visit: Jessie Daniels, Nice White Ladies (2021)
Author Visit: Jonathan Eig, Master Storyteller and Biographer
Author Visit: Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy (2022)
Author Visit: Melissa Bernstein, LifeLines
Author Visit: Mimi Zieman, Tap Dancing on Everest (2024)
Author Visit: Will Schwalbe, We Should Not Be Friends