
Katie Roiphe
Professor | Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program, Director
Email: katie.roiphe@nyu.edu
Katie Roiphe is the author of several books, including The Violet Hour, Uncommon Arrangements, The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism, and In Praise of Messy Lives. 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 many other places. She has a Ph.D. in literature from Princeton University.
Published Articles & Essays

November 7th, 2022
The Woman T.S. Eliot Loved At Arm’s Length and Enshrined in Verse

February 23rd, 2021
Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival

March 19th, 2016
Dying, With Nothing to Say

March 8th, 2016
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End

March 6th, 2014
Feminism, Meet Fiction

October 30th, 2013
The Dutch Don’t Care About Marriage

October 8th, 2013
The Philosopher and the Student

June 27th, 2013
Stop Attacking Male Writers for Being Sexist

May 8th, 2013
Is the Bohemian Dead?

September 4th, 2012
In Praise of Messy Lives

August 31st, 2012
Disappearing mothers

August 29th, 2012
Death, Explained. Christopher Hitchens’ Mortality: A rare honest book about death.

August 11th, 2012
In Defense of Single Motherhood

July 6th, 2012
Not Quite How a Person Should Be

January 27th, 2012
Rabbit at Rest

November 13th, 2011
In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risque Remarks

October 27th, 2011
Gawker Is Big Immature Baby

March 21st, 2011
Janet Malcolm, The Art of Nonfiction No. 4

March 1st, 2011
Interviews: Janet Malcolm, The Art of Nonfiction No. 4

January 10th, 2011
Why Criticism Matters

November 19th, 2010
Modern parenting

August 13th, 2010
The Language of Fakebook

July 30th, 2010
The Allure of Messy Lives

December 31st, 2009
The Naked and the Conflicted

June 1st, 2009
Gay Talese, The Art of Nonfiction No. 2

December 15th, 2008
Under the Sign of Sontag

May 20th, 2008
Uncommon Arrangements

April 27th, 2008
Reclaiming the Shrew

February 3rd, 2008
Without Metaphor

April 30th, 2007
The Great Escape