“[Thomas J. Cottle] is a very good writer, who reminds one very much of James Agee, magically sensitive, and with a skill in rendering the poignancy of the captured moment.”
—Ashley Montagu
“Blessed with a fiction writer’s sense of significant detail, speech and incident, Cottle can put you on the black students’ bus to ‘Dunster,’ and by means of the talk, bickering and a sudden outbreak of violence, can take you closer in a few pages to the bitterness and tensions bred by this kind of integration than can any number of attitude surveys.”
—Thodore Solotaroff,
New York Times Book Review
“Thomas Cottle brings to the study of children and families the dramatic power and wisdom of the great novelist or playwright.”
—Washington Post Book World
Thomas J. Cottle
Professor of Education
Boston University
605 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
Telephone: 617-566-6426
Articles by Thomas Cottle
Published Articles
Parsing the Secretary. ONE VOICE, in press.
Held Hostage by Our Students, as Told by One of the Students. SCHOOLS JOURNAL, Fall, 2010, Volume 7, No. 2, 170-183.
Essay Book Review of Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools In Raleigh by Gerald Grant. SCHOOLS JOURNAL, Fall, 2010, Volume 7, No. 2, 287-294.
Look to the Culture. @SED, Boston University, Spring,, 2010, page.13.
Our Thoughts and Our Prayers. Antioch Review, volume 68, No. 2, Spring, 2010, pages 232-238.
No Longer Burning Bright. Newton Tab, December 21, 2009.
Salaries. Chronicle of Higher Education, April 6, 2009.
The Power of Athletes. Teachers College Record, April 1, 2009.
March Money Madness: The Coaches vs. the Professors. The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, 2009.
The Apology. The Jewish Advocate, March 13, 2009, page 8.
Book Review of Loneliness as a Way Life by Thomas Dumm, and Loneliness by John Cacioppo and William Patrick Teachers College Record, March 12, 2009.
Remembering Studs. Teachers College Record Online, Teachers College Record. March 2, 2009. Reprinted April 17, 2009.
Wanted: New Teacher Bearing New Curriculum. Teachers College Record Online, Teachers College Record, December 8, 2008.
On Spears and Schadendreude. MASSPSYC, Fall/Winter, 2008, Volume 52, number 1, page 22.
Seeking Lodging and the Best Lights: The Challenge of Teaching. SCHOOLS, volume 5, number 1/2, 2008, pages 25-34.
On Thinking Before speaking and Tired Feet. MASSPSYC, Spring/Summer, 2008, 52, pages 16ff.
About This Primary Thing. BROOKLINE TAB, January 23, 2008.
Book Review of Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein and Paul Bernstein. THE BOSTON GLOBE, December 23, 2007, E6.
There’s No Life Without Denial. MASSPSYC, Fall, Winter, 2007, volume 51, pages 22-23.
On Stories and Theories: In Appreciation of Miss Freud. SCHOOLS, Fall, 2007, volume 4, number 2, pages 91-100.
Owl Story. ANTIOCH REVIEW, Fall, 2007, volume 65, number 4. Download PDF of article
The Biology of Connection. MASSPSYC, Spring/Summer, 2007, volume 51, page 17ff.
Book Review of In My Blood by John Sedgwick. THE BOSTON GLOBE, Sunday, February 11, 2007, page E5.
Avoiding Closure. MASSPSYC, Spring/Summer, 2006, volume 50, pages 19ff.
Book Review of This Changes Everything by Christina Robb. THE BOSTON GLOBE, May 31, 2006, page E6.
Memories Must Do. OUR TOWN BROOKLINE, November, 2005, pages 12ff.
Going Back to the Writing. ANTIOCH REVIEW, Fall, 2005, volume 63, number 4, pages 719-728. Download PDF of article
On Revelation and Recognition. Journal of Child and Youth Care, 2005, volume 20, pages 43-55. Download PDF of article
Slouching Toward Brookline. In OUR BROOKLINE-OUR STORIES. Brookline, MA: Brookline Council on Aging, 2005, pages 51/53.
Merely Two People. THE McNEESE REVIEW, volume 42, 2004, pages 121-130.
Professors. JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, 2004, volume 185, number 2, pages 47-57.
A War for God-fearing Peoples. LOS ANGELES TIMES, January 30, 2003, page B15.
The Miraculous Stranger: Notes on the Power of Affirmation. JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES IN CAREER EDUCATION, Winter, 2003, Volume 2, Number 1, pages 12-14. Reprinted in ATA MAGAZINE, Fall, 2003, volume 84, number 1, pages 34-37.
New Anxieties Intrude in Therapist's Office. BALTIMORE SUN, March 9, 2003, page 5C.
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My Mother, Musicians, and Me. BOSTONIA, Spring, 2003, number 1, pages 30-33.
The Construction of Affirmation. CONNECTICUT REVIEW, Spring, 2003, Volume XXV, No. 1. pages 69-78.
Screen Speak. MASSACHUSETTS PSYCHOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, April, 2003, Volume 47, number 1, page 31. Read excerpt
Clearing Hurdles to Reach Rewards of Reading. BALTIMORE SUN, May 27, 2003.
Writing Cracks Open a Door at Juvenile Hall-Book Review of True Notebooks by Mark Salzman. THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Sunday, September 21, 2003 , page 10.
Baseball. NEW JERSEY RECORD, Sunday, September 7, 2003.
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The Last Concert. THE ANTIOCH REVIEW, volume 61, number 4, Fall, 2003, pages 624-638.
Forthcoming Articles
Beyond Self-Esteem. CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. in press.
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