Lisa del Rosso

Praise for You Are All a Part of Me:

"The thing is, del Rosso is with you, providing indelible description, crackling dialogue, and hard-won wisdom tempered with heart. Her thematic range is encompassing: family, love, loss, death, friendship, gratitude, renewal. By book's end, she is a part of you."

—Tim Tomlinson, author of Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire (poetry) and This Is Not Happening to You (short fiction). He is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop and a professor in NYU's Global Liberal Studies.

Lisa del Rosso's account of her years teaching at colleges, ranging from sublime to obscure, offers us a gritty, account of America's hard-working, long-suffering, ever-exploited and ferociously committed professorial underclass. In so doing, she exposes the lesser-known peculiarities and exigencies of the teacherly life—experiences that all true teachers have experienced, whether they care to admit it or not. —Jacques Berlinerblau, Professor, Georgetown University; author of Campus Confidential: How College Works, Or Doesn't, For Professors, Parents, And Students

You Are All a Part of Me 1.23.21

Serving House Books

You Are All a Part of Me, my second memoir-in-essays collection, was just published January 2021 by Serving House Books. Available on Amazon.

This hybrid memoir/collection of essays is about people. My people. In the midst of a pandemic, my people are at the forefront of my mind -- my people, and time. There are friends I consider family who live in Europe and I have no idea when I will be allowed to see them again. There is a biological relation who I will never see again. There are mentors who literally changed my life, and students whose impact never left. There are New Yorkers and Floridians, and there is immeasurable loss. What you get to take with you when you leave this earth is the following: what you did, how you lived, who you loved, who loved you. All the people that made you — for better or worse — who you are. People matter to me, and time: the finite time you have with your people, and the finite time they have with you.
--LdR

Interview for You Are All a Part of Me

Clip of Lizzy Francis, Reporter and Associate Editor of Fatherly, interviewing me on 1/23 about the publication of You Are All a Part of Me.

It's DONE!!

You Are All a Part of Me
Memoir/Essay
published by Serving House Books 1.23.21

Confessions of an Accidental Professor available at Amazon

Confessions of an Accidental Professor
Memoir/Essay
Available via Amazon

Confessions of an Accidental Professor

Confessions of an Accidental Professor reveals ten years of teaching college freshman through the prism of an adjunct professor. In this hybrid memoir, essays are interspersed with anonymous student evaluations, emails, and chair observations. The issues range from serious (rape and sexual assaults of students) to silly (being contacted by a 25-year-old former student who sent photos of himself stripped to the waist and asked for a date.) The relationships between students and teacher reveal the challenges and satisfactions of an underpaid adjunct professor with humor, drama and immediacy.

Essays & Poetry

Saying 'I Don't' to Release the Anger

- Modern Love, The New York Times

32 Highbury Place

Barking Sycamores Neurodivergent Literature

6/9 9/11

Serving House Journal

In Beautiful Weather

The Chillfiltr Review

In Beautiful Weather/The Chillfiltr Review Podcast

Podcast: essay read by the author

In the Real World

Vietnam War Poetry

You Are All a Part of Me

Available on Amazon

Praise for You Are All a Part of Me:

"del Rosso navigates the sense of the split between our veneer of wholeness and completion that people see compared to the internal sense of fragmentedness that we so often feel."

—William Christopher Brown, Ph.D., Professor of English and Technical Writing, Dept. Co-Chair of English and Language Arts, Midland College.

Got the galley!!

Lisa del Rosso portrays the most accurate picture of academic life I've encountered. She goes beyond simply depicting the joy, humor, absurdity, heartbreak and satisfaction of working with students and shows what it's really like to be a part of their lives.

—Robert W. Kenefick, Ph.D., FACSM (Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine)

Memoir/Essay

Confessions of an Accidental Professor

As an account of the contemporary academic adjunct catastrophe, del Rosso’s book should be required reading for full-time professors and their administrative bosses who are charged with maintaining the integrity of their institutions—of course, they’ll likely flinch in the face of the reality that defines the life of the adjunct professor and that seems beyond redeeming and out of their control. It’s not, and that’s an important part of this story. However, what makes this rollicking, painful, smart, hilarious, and honest memoir required reading for all of us is its enormous heart: in adversity, del Rosso upholds and celebrates her students and her life—it is, in the end, a triumphant embrace. --David Daniel, Co-founder and former president of the Affiliated Faculty of Emerson College--Associate Professor of Creative Writing at FDU.