Faculty
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Robert S. Boynton
Associate Professor Lit Rep, Director
Robert S. Boynton is the director of NYU's Literary Reportage concentration. He was graduated with honors in philosophy and religion from Haverford College, and received an MA in political science from Yale University. His book, The New New Journalism was published by Vintage Books in 2005, and he has written about culture and ideas for The New Yorker (where he has been a contributing editor) and Harper's (where he has been a senior editor). His byline has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Lingua Franca, Bookforum, Columbia Journalism Review, The New Republic, The Nation, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone and many other publications. For a selection of his work, go to robertboynton.com. Information about The New New Journalism can be found at newnewjournalism.com.
Watch Boynton's video on Literary Reportage.
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Ted Conover
Distinguished Writer in Residence
Ted Conover is the author of five books, most recently The Routes of Man, about roads, and Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, an account of his ten months spent working as a corrections officer at New York's Sing Sing Prison. Newjack won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001 and was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His other books are Whiteout: Lost in Aspen, Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Illegal Migrants, ( and Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails With America's Hoboes. A summa cum laude graduate of Amherst College, Conover spent two years at Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar. In 2001, he received an honorary doctorate from Amherst and in 2003, a Guggenheim Fellowship. In recent years he has taught at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the University of Oregon. He contributes to publications including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others.
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Lisa DePaulo
Adjunct Faculty
Lisa DePaulo, a correspondent for GQ Magazine and a contributing writer at Elle, is an award-winning magazine journalist with three decades of experience. Her profiles for GQ have included memorable exclusives, such as a story on the soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein in his final months as well as the first-ever interview with Rielle Hunter about her affair with presidential candidate John Edwards. DePaulo has profiled Vice President Joe Biden, traveling around the country on Air Force II this past winter, and has written about General David Petraeus, chronicling his last days in Baghdad as commanding general of the war in Iraq. She has also written features for GQ on Matt Damon, Jamie Foxx, Ivanka Trump, Justin Timberlake
At Elle Magazine, her profile subjects have included Teresa Heinz Kerry, Anderson Cooper, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. and Nancy Grace. She has also written for New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, the Daily Beast, Vogue, Philadelphia Magazine, the Washingtonian and many other publications.
She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communications.
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Meryl Gordon
Associate Professor Magazine, Director
Meryl Gordon is the Director of Magazine Writing at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She is the author of Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach, published in December 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and a New York Times bestseller.
A magazine writer for nearly 25 years, with more than 150 major features to her credit, she has specialized in profiles, politics, business and lifestyle features. She has been a contributing editor at New York Magazine and Elle, and her articles have also appeared in The New York Times, Marie-Claire, Reader's Digest, More, Redbook, Gourmet and Travel & Leisure.
A native of Rochester, N.Y. and a graduate of the University of Michigan, she covered economics out of Washington, D.C. for Gannett News Service and USA Today. She began her career as a newspaper reporter for the Cincinnati Post, and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.
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Brooke Kroeger
Professor GloJo, Director
Brooke Kroeger directs Global and Joint Program Studies and is the faculty liaison for The Local East Village, the collaborative community news and information site of NYU Journalism and the New York Times. She was department chair from 2005-2011 and the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute’s inaugural director from 2008-2011.
She is the author of the forthcoming Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception and its companion database. Her three previous books are Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are (Fall 2003), Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst (1999) and Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist (1994).
As a journalist, she worked for Newsday, serving as UN Correspondent and as a deputy metropolitan editor for New York Newsday. This followed an eight-year stint overseas in the Scripps Howard days of United Press International with postings in Chicago, Brussels, London and Tel Aviv. She was Tel Aviv bureau chief for three years before returning to London to serve as the agency's chief editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She started with the wire service in its Chicago bureau, and over the course of four years, wrote about everything from local and state politics to sports. Her freelanced work has appeared in various magazines as well as in the New York Times, Newsday, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. She was the principal consultant for the PBS documentary on Nellie Bly for “The American Experience: Around the World in 72 Days." Reviews of her books and a selection of her work can be viewed on her website.
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Pamela Newkirk
Professor
Pamela Newkirk is the author of Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media, (New York University Press, 2000), which was awarded the National Press Club Award for Media Criticism. She is editor of A Love No Less: More Than Two Centuries of African American Love Letters, (Doubleday, January 2003); and the forthcoming Letters From Black America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2009). Prior to joining the faculty, Newkirk worked as a daily journalist at four different news organizations, including New York Newsday, where in 1990 she was among the reporting team awarded a Pulitzer Prize for spot news. Her primary areas of interest are race in the news media and African American art and culture. Her articles have been published in a wide range of publications including The New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post and ARTnews.
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Michael Norman
Associate Professor Lit Rep
Michael Norman, is the co-author of TEARS IN THE DARKNESS: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath (2009), a work of narrative non-fiction that was on the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks and was picked by Times critic Dwight Garner, as well as other reviewers, as one of the top ten books of year. He has also written THESE GOOD MEN: Friendships Forged in War, a memoir published to critical acclaim in 1990. He is a former reporter and columnist for The New York Times national, foreign and metropolitan desks and was the inaugural writer for the following New York Times columns: "A Sense of Place", a monthly column that explored the dislocations of modern life in one suburban town; "Lessons", a national column on education; and "Our Towns", a twice-weekly column on life outside New York City.
Norman's work also includes major articles for various other national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine and GQ Magazine. His work has been syndicated both here and abroad. He is currently working on a second book with his wife, Elizabeth M. Norman, an exploration of Bellevue Hospital in New York, the oldest continuously operating public hospital in the country.
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Mary W. Quigley
Clinical Associate Professor Magazine
Mary W. Quigley is a journalist who writes about adult children as well as women and work issues. Her blog, www.mothering21.com, tackles parenting emerging adults and beyond. Her most recent book is Going Back to Work: A Survival Guide (St. Martin's Press, 2004). She is also the co-author of And What Do You Do? When Women Chose to Stay Home. (Wildcat Canyon press, 2000). She has freelanced for numerous magazines and newspapers, ranging from More magazine to Newsday. She teaches research, reporting and writing courses on both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
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Mitchell Stephens
Professor
Mitchell Stephens is the author of A History of News, an extended history of journalism that has been translated into four languages and was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." His latest book, the rise of the image the fall of the word, a historical analysis of our current communications revolution, was published by Oxford University Press. Professor Stephens is also the author of Broadcast News, the most widely used radio and television news textbook, and the co-author of Writing and Reporting the News. In recent years, he has written numerous articles on media issues and aspects of contemporary thought for publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Columbia Journalism Review.
Professor Stephens recently completed a trip around the world, during which he reported on globalization for the public radio program "Marketplace" and the webzine Feed and wrote essays on travel for LonelyPlanet.com. His commentaries have aired on NPR's "On the Media." Professor Stephens has been history consultant to the Newseum.
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Carol Sternhell
Associate Professor Studio 20
Carol Sternhell writes about feminism, literature, and motherhood. Her literary criticism and essays on feminist scholarship have appeared in The Village Voice, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Ms., and The Women's Review of Books. She was the founding director of NYU's undergraduate women's studies program and served for years as associate editor of Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Before coming to NYU, she worked as an editor at Newsday, a general assignment reporter for the New York Post, and a freelance magazine writer. She began her journalistic career as an editor of The Harvard Crimson during the days of anti-Vietnam War protest, and served as faculty advisor to NYU's student newspaper, the Washington Square News, during our most recent war. She has recently stepped down as president of the FAS Women's Faculty Caucus.
Professor Sternhell created the department's study-abroad programs in London, UK; Prague, Czech Republic; and Accra, Ghana.
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Lawrence Weschler
Distinguished Writer in Residence
Lawrence Weschler, a graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been, since the early '80s, a staff writer for The New Yorker, where his work has shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award (for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992) and was recently granted a Lannan Literary Award. His books of political reportage include "The Passion of Poland" (1984); "A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers" (1990); "Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas" (1998), and the forthcoming "Vermeer in Bosnia." His "Passions and Wonders" series currently comprises "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin" (1982); "David Hockney's Cameraworks" (1984); "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders" (1995); "A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces" (1998); and "Boggs: A Comedy of Values" (1999). He has taught, variously, at Princeton, Columbia, UCSC, Bard, Vassar, and Sarah Lawrence, and is a contributing editor of McSweeney's and Threepenny Review.