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
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.
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.
Greil Marcus has been writing about American music, culture, and politics for over four decades. His work has appeared in, among other publications, Rolling Stone (where he was the magazine's first reviews editor), Creem, The Village Voice, Artforum, Esquire, the New York Times, salon.com, and The Believer. His 1975 book Mystery Train is considered a classic of music criticism, placing rock music in the broader context of the American struggle for democracy. His other books include Lipstick Traces, Dead Elvis, The Dustbin of History, and Invisible Republic. Marcus is a co-editor of A New Literary History of America, which has just been published by Harvard University Press. He has taught at Berkeley, Princeton, and The New School, and has lectured widely throughout the United States and Europe.
Shimon Dotan is an award-winning filmmaker who has directed twelve feature films. He was born in Romania and, at the age of 9 (in 1959), moved to Israel. He grew up in an agricultural cooperative, served five years in the Israeli military as a Navy Seal, and received his BFA at Tel Aviv University, where his student films won Israel's Best Short Film and Best Director Awards. He has taught filmmaking and film studies at Tel Aviv University, The New School and Concordia University in Montreal. Dotan is fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities and a member of the Writers Guild and Directors Guild of America.
Dotan is the recipient of numerous awards including the Special Jury Prize for Best World Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival (Hot House, a film about Hamas militans in Israeli jails); the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival (Smile of the Lamb); and the Israeli Academy Award for Best Film and Best Director (Repeat Dive, Smile Of The Lamb).
Charles Taylor has written on movies, books, popular culture and politics for a variety of publications including the New York Times, Salon.com, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Dissent, The Nation, the New Yorker, the New York Observer, Lapham's Quarterly and others. A member of the National Society of Film Critics, Taylor has contributed to several of the Society's volumes, and his work appears in Best Music Writing 2009. He has taught journalism and literature courses at the New School and the Columbia School of Journalism.
Selected Writing by Prof. Taylor:
"Root Causes and Rotten Ideas: On Dinesh D'Souza's The Enemy At Home"
