Gellman’s Book on College in Prison Gets Positive Review: Academe
Education Behind the Wall: Why and How We Teach College in Prison, edited by Mneesha Gellman, Associate Professor and Director of the Emerson Prison Initiative, and featuring essays by several Emerson faculty members, was reviewed for the October issue of Academe.
Reviewer William Kerwin, founder of the Missouri Prison Education Program, writes:
“Formally, the book is a series of testimonials—microhistories that express the motivations, feelings, and political concerns of the various participants. What emerges is a kind of group memoir recounting individual experiences, a practical manifesto, and a philosophical intervention into America’s carceral culture. In a nonprogrammatic way, Education behind the Wall offers a set of claims about authority in relation to prison education and in relation to our historical moment.”
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