Faculty
Alisa Solomon
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Director, Arts & Culture, M.A. Program; Associate Professor
Alisa Solomon is a theater scholar, critic and journalist and has been teaching for 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 a staff writer at the Village Voice for 14 years, where she won awards for her reporting on reproductive rights, electoral politics, women’s sports, and immigration policy. She continues to write theater criticism for the Voice and occasional freelance articles. She is 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.