Carl Rollyson
Professor

Weissman School of Arts & Sciences
Baruch College, CUNY

E-mail: Carl_Rollyson@baruch.cuny.edu

Carl Rollyson has published more than thirty books ranging in subject matter from biographies of Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Rebecca West, and Susan Sontag to studies of American culture, genealogy, children's biography, film, and literary criticism. He has authored more than 500 articles on American and European literature and history. His work has been reviewed in newspapers such as The New York Times and the London Sunday Telegraph and in journals such as American Literature and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. He writes a weekly column, “On Biography,” for The New York Sun and is President of the Rebecca West Society. His play, THAT WOMAN: REBECCA WEST REMEMBERS, has been produced at Theatresource in New York City.

Since 1987 Carl Rollyson has taught art history and literature at Baruch. His courses have included Art Survey I and II, Survey of British Literature I and II, Great Works (English 2850), Writing I and II, Documentary Film (ENG 3280) and Feit seminars on New York City and Biography. He has served the college as Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Associate Provost, and Acting Dean of the School of Education and Educational Services.

Professor Rollyson has been the recipient of Baruch's Presidential Excellence Award for Scholarship, and he has been awarded grants from The American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.