Susie Linfield
Susie Linfield is a social and cultural theorist at New York University.
Background and education[]
Between the ages of 8 and 15 Linfield was a student at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet in New York City. She danced as a student in productions of the ballets Don Quixote, A Midsummer Night's Dream and in the Royal Ballet's New York production of The Nutcracker under the directorship of Rudolf Nureyev.[1] She decided to continue her education at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City.[1] Then earned a bachelor's degree in American history at Oberlin College in Ohio.[1]
Career[]
After college she moved to Boston where she ran the feminist newspaper . She then moved to New York City where she studied journalism and documentary film-making at New York University.[1] She has been a professor in the journalism department of New York University since 1995; for several years she was director of the cultural reporting and criticism program.[1]
Linfield has served as editor-in-chief of American Film, deputy editor of The Village Voice and arts editor of The Washington Post.[1]
Books[]
The Lion's Den[]
Linfield is the author of The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky (2019), in which she asserts that leading leftist intellectuals shaped antisemitism and anti-Israel attitudes that she argued pervade contemporary progressive discourse.[2][3][4][5]
Linfield's book, The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence (2011),[6][7][1] It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and won the Berlin Prize.
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g Love, Paul (2 December 2010). "Why the camera never lies idle (book review)". Times Higher Education.
- ^ Stein, Hannes (15 June 2019). "Endet die goldene Ära des amerikanischen Judentums? (book review)". Die Welt. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ Alan Johnson (Summer 2019). "The Anti-Imperialism of Idiots (book review)". Jewish Review of Books.
- ^ Mikics, David (29 March 2019). "The Left's Favorite Dirty Word; In her new book, 'The Lion's Den,' Susie Linfield examines the historical antecedents to the left's Jewish problem (book review)". Tablet (magazine). Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ J.J. Goldberg (11 April 2019). "How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism". New York Times. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ Kaufmann, David (4 November 2011). "The Ethics of (Looking at) Photography (book review)". The Forward.
- ^ Kaszynski, Elizabeth. “The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, vol. 18, no. 4, 2015, pp. 787–790. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0787.
External links[]
- Susie Linfield on Syria's Torture Photos witness to atrocity susie linfield article
- Living people
- American feminists
- American women academics
- American Zionists
- The New York Review of Books people
- New York University alumni
- New York University faculty
- Oberlin College alumni
- School of American Ballet alumni
- The Village Voice people
- The Washington Post people
- Writers on Zionism