Susie Linfield
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Susie Linfield is a social and cultural theorist at New York University.
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 Wages for Housework. 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]
