Board of Education member Joseph Listro (D) has resigned from his seat on New Britain’s ten member Board of Education. City Council Democrats have proposed that his replacement be CCSU Professor Aimee Pozorski.
Listro, who resigned on May 21, 2025 had, himself, been named to fill a vacancy on the Board in 2020. He was later elected to a full term on the Board in 2023. Listro is well known for leading the New Britain ROOTS agricultural and education nonprofit organization.
Under the city Charter, the Council is responsible for filling vacancies in the Board between elections. The replacement must be a member of the same party as the member being replaced. Listro is a Democrat.
In their proposed resolution recommending Pozorski to succeed Listro, the Council President Pro-Tempore, Ald Francisco Santiago (D-5), Council Majority Leader, Ald John McNamara (D-4) and Council Assistant Majority Leader, Ald Iris Sanchez (D-3) said that,
Aimee Pozorski is a Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University where she has worked since 2003 and serves as Co-Director of Graduate Studies in English and coordinator of the certificate program in racial justice.
CCSU’s website says that Pozorski holds a PhD in English from Emory University and has expertise in, “20th and 21st Century American Literature, Trans-Atlantic Modernism, Theories of Trauma and Ethics, Philip Roth Studies, Literatures of Racial Justice,” adding that her scholarship includes,
Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (Continuum, 2011), Falling After 9/11: Crisis in American Art and Literature (Bloomsbury, 2014), and AIDS-Trauma and Politics (Lexington, 2019). She has edited or co-edited volumes on the topics of Philip Roth, American Modernism, and HIV/AIDS representation. With Maren Scheurer, she co-edited the peer-reviewed journal, Philip Roth Studies from 2019-2024 and the Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth which also appeared in 2024.
If appointed, Pozorski would serve on the Board of Education for remainder of the term ending November 9, 2027.
The Board of Education has staggered terms of office, with five seats elected every two years.
