Faculty

Susie Linfield, director, writes about culture and politics for a variety of publications including The Washington Post Book World, the Boston Review, Dissent, and The Nation; her work has also appeared in The New York Times Arts and Leisure section, The New York Times Magazine, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, and Salmagundi. She was formerly the arts editor of The Washington Post, the deputy editor of the Village Voice, the editor-in-chief of American Film, and a book critic for the Los Angeles Times. She is writing a book on the photojournalism of political violence and suffering.

Selected Writing by Prof. Linfield.

Katie Roiphe is the author of the recent book Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939 (Dial Press). Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Harper's, Vogue, Esquire, Slate, and Tin House, among other places. She has a Ph.D. in literature from Princeton University.

Selected Writing by Prof. Roiphe.

Affiliated Faculty

Claudia Roth Pierpont is a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she has written on subjects ranging from the Ballets Russes to Nietzsche to Mae West. A collection of her essays, Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World (Knopf) was published in 2000, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has received a Guggenheim Foundation grant and has been a Fellow at the New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers. She holds a doctorate in art history of the Italian Renaissance from NYU's Institute of Fine Arts.

Dennis Lim, who graduated from the CRC program in 1997, is the editorial director at the Museum of the Moving Image and a regular contributor to The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He was the film editor and a critic of film, music, and books at the Village Voice for seven years and is the editor of The Village Voice Film Guide. Lim's work has also appeared in Slate, Salon, The Believer, The Oxford American, Blender, and Spin, among other publications. He is currently writing a book on David Lynch and working on the development of Moving Image Source, an online film magazine and resource, for the Museum of the Moving Image.

Alyssa Katz has written about civic affairs, social issues, technology, and culture for Mother Jones, New York, The American Prospect, Spin, Metropolis, Newsday, Salon, The Nation, The Village Voice and other publications. She was formerly editor of City Limits, an award-winning news and policy magazine covering New York City's neighborhoods and the forces that shape them. She is currently working on a book about the origins and consequences of the real-estate boom.

Stephen Metcalf has written on politics, culture and ideas for a wide array of publications, including the New York Observer, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and GQ. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and Travel + Leisure, and a columnist for Slate. Metcalf is writing a book on the cultural transformations of the 1980s, and he previously worked as a speechwriter for Hillary Clinton in her (successful) campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Paul Berman is a writer on politics and literature whose articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Slate, the Village Voice, Dissent, and various other American, European and Latin American journals. His books include Terror and Liberalism and A Tale of Two Utopias. He has been awarded a MacArthur award and a Guggenheim grant, among other honors.

Suketu Mehta is a journalist and fiction writer. His nonfiction book Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and Condé Nast Traveler. Mehta is currently working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he was awarded a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship.

Lawrence Weschler was for many years a staff writer for The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. His books include Calamities of Exile, Vermeer in Bosnia; Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders and Boggs: A Comedy of Values. Weschler is a contributing editor of McSweeney's and Threepenny Review, and he directs the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.

Robert Boynton is the director of the Portfolio program. 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 work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Lingua Franca, The New Republic, The Nation and many other publications.