Email: susie.linfield@nyu.edu
Susie Linfield, associate director of the Cultural Reporting & Criticism Program, writes about culture and politics for a variety of publications including ArtNews, The Boston Review, Dissent, Newsday, The Nation, The New York Observer and Salmagundi; her work has also appeared in The New York Times Arts and Leisure section, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. She was formerly the arts editor of The Washington Post, the deputy editor of The Village Voice and the editor-in-chief of American Film. She is writing a book on the photojournalism of political violence and suffering.
Professor Linfield is currently on leave.
Selected Writings
A review of the "Archive Fever" photography show for The Nation, May 5, 2008.
"The Bleeding Wound: Zimbabwe's Slow Suicide." A review of a collection of books on Zimbabwe's troubles, in the Fall 2007 issue of Dissent.
A review of The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman. In the September 16, 2007 Washington Post.
"The Treacherous Medium" - Susie Linfield's take on photography critics, from the Boston Review, September/October 2006.
"Children’s Crusade" - Susie Linfield on genocide in Africa (Bookforum, April/May 2006).
Susie Linfield's take on the life and work of Robert Capa in "Robert Capa's Hope," from the Boston Review, April/May 2005.
Susie Linfield's take on looking at Holocaust photographs, from the Boston Review, September/October 2005.
Susie Linfield's take on the politics of memory, from the Boston Review, Summer 2003.
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