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Lisa Orr

Professor of English at Utica College, and author of Transforming American Realism: Working-Class Women Writers of the Twentieth Century

Lisa Orr is Professor of English at Utica College, and the author of Transforming American Realism: Working-Class Women Writers of the Twentieth Century (University Press of America/Rowman & Littlefield). She earned a Ph.D. in English at UCLA, specializing in American working-class literature, and has published memoir, book reviews, works of literary criticism, and journalismmost recently, for the Disunion series of The New York Times (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/new-yorks-mixed-race-riot/?smid=pl-share).

October 19, 2017

On Watching The Breakfast Club with My Teenage Daughter
February 17, 2017

How Trump Alienated Me From My Working Class Roots
August 31, 2016

The Real Reasons Why Low-Income Students Dont Apply To Elite Universities
June 10, 2016

Corrective Genealogy for White People

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May 16, 2016

Don't Blame the Working Class
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