Associate professor in the Applied Linguistics Graduate Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He coordinates the research program and teaches courses in cultural studies, media analysis, critical pedagogy, and language acquisition. Speaking internationally on issues of democracy, education, and social justice, Leistyna’s books include Breaking Free: The Transformative Power of Critical Pedagogy (Harvard Publishing Group), Presence of Mind: Education and the Politics of Deception (Westview Press), Defining and Designing Multiculturalism: One School System’s Efforts (SUNY Press), Cultural Studies: From Theory to Action (Blackwell Press), and Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use (Rodopi Press). His forthcoming book is entitled Laughing Matters: Entertainment Television’s Mockery of the Working Class.