A Commitment to Thoughtful Analysis and Deeper Investigation
The Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute is for writers who are driven to interrogate the world around them. Here, you will produce work that examines aspects of our culture with the support of deep research, an understanding of history and lines of influence, a critical and questioning eye, and a belief in the power of good writing.
The Only Program of Its Kind
Part journalism, part creative writing, part critical analysis, the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program is unique in the United States. It draws writers from all backgrounds and areas of expertise who come here to challenge their ideas about thinking and writing, move beyond the surface of stories, and develop a distinct voice. The curriculum is individualized to each writer, and it draws upon the vast academic opportunities at NYU.
Faculty
Katie Roiphe
Professor | Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program, Director
Katie Roiphe’s books include The Power Notebooks, The Violet Hour, Uncommon Arrangements, and In Praise of Messy Lives. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, Vogue, Esquire, Slate, and The Paris Review, among many other places. She has a Ph.D. in literature from Princeton University.
Alex Abramovich
Adjunct Faculty
Alex Abramovich has worked or written for The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Village Voice, GQ, Bookforum, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, and The New Yorker. He was an editor of FEED and is the author of “Bullies: A Friendship.”
Johnny Dwyer
Adjunct Faculty
Johnny Dwyer is a reporter and the author of The Districts and American Warlord. He was a staff writer at LIFE Magazine where he reported domestic and international stories including the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina. He has also reported for The New York Times, The Intercept, Foreign Policy, ProPublica, LA Weekly, Esquire, Rolling Stone, TIME, and others. He covers criminal justice, national security, and human rights.
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Adjunct Faculty
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose books include Names of New York, Island People: The Caribbean and the World, and (with Rebecca Solnit) Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Harper’s Magazine, among many other publications. At NYU, he is a scholar in residence at the Institute for Public Knowledge, and teaches courses in Journalism and Liberal Studies.
Michael Miller
Adjunct Faculty
Michael Miller is an editor at Bookforum magazine. He began his journalism career at the Village Voice, where he was a research assistant, a copyeditor, and an editor at the Voice Literary Supplement. He has also worked at Spin and Time Out New York, where he was an editor and the lead book critic from 2005 until 2010.
The Need for Deeper Analysis Has Never Been Greater
As our world becomes more connected and complicated, writing that takes the time to explore and examine culture in context has never been more valuable. There’s no typical path for our graduates, who find success publishing memoirs, managing magazines, and writing opinion pieces. Recent graduates have gone on to work at the Fader, Slate, and the New York Times Magazine; publish in Harper’s Magazine and The Paris Review; and put out books with Farrar, Straus and Giroux and W. W. Norton & Company, to name just a few.
