Faculty

Helen Benedict

Professor of Journalism

hb22@columbia.edu
http://www.helenbenedict.com

Helen is a novelist and journalist specializing in women’s issues, race, and literature. Her nonfiction books include Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes (1992), an analysis of the way sex, race and class bias affect the coverage of rape; Portraits in Print (1991), a collection of profiles; and Recovery: How to Survive Sexual Assault (1985, 1994). Her novels include The Opposite of Love (Fall, 2007), The Sailor’s Wife (2000), Bad Angel (1996, 1997) and A World Like This (1990). She has worked as a newspaper feature writer in London and California, has written for magazines including The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Nation, Poets & Writers, and Women's Review of Books, and is widely anthologized. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Virginia Center of the Arts, Gannett and elsewhere. She is currently working on a nonfiction book about female veterans of the Iraq war entitled, Women at War: Combat and Conscience in Iraq.