Alisa Solomon directs the Arts & Culture concentration in the MA
Program at the J-School. She came to Columbia in 2005 after nearly 20
years as a Professor of English/Journalism at Baruch College-CUNY and
as a Professor in the Ph.D. programs in Theater and in English at the
CUNY Graduate Center. In addition to contributing occasionally to The
Nation, The Forward, The New York Times, and other publications, she
was on staff at the Village Voice for 21 years, where she won awards
for her reporting on reproductive rights, electoral politics, women's
sports, and immigration policy. Currently, she is s regular contributor
of theater commentaries on WNYC and a contributing editor on the
weekly radio program Beyond the Pale: Radical Jewish Culture and
Politics (WBAI). Solomon's book, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on
Theater and Gender, won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic
Criticism. She is the editor of three anthologies: Wrestling with Zion:
Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict (with Tony Kushner); Theater and Social Change (Theater,
31:3); and The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater (with
Framji Minwalla). Solomon holds a doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic
Criticism from Yale.
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