Alisa Solomon

Alisa Solomon has just joined Columbia University’s faculty as director of the Arts and Culture major in the new MA program at School of Journalism. She was a professor for nearly 20 years at Baruch College-City University of New York in English/Journalism and at the CUNY Graduate Center in the Ph.D. programs in Theater and in English. A theater critic, scholar and journalist, she was a staff writer at the Village Voice for 14 years and still freelances for the Voice, where she has won awards for her reporting on U.S. immigration policy, reproductive rights, and electoral politics. She has also written for The Nation, The Forward, the New York Times and other publications. She is the author of Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender, winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and co-editor (with Tony Kushner) of Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and (with Framji Minwalla) of The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater.