Susie Linfield is a social and cultural theorist atNew York University.
Between the ages of 8 and 15 Linfield was a student atGeorge Balanchine'sSchool 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 ofRudolf Nureyev.[1] She decided to continue her education at theEthical Culture Fieldston School in New York City.[1] Then earned a bachelor's degree in American history atOberlin College in Ohio.[1]
After college she moved to Boston where she ran the feminist newspaperWages for Housework. She then moved to New York City where she studied journalism and documentary film-making atNew 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 ofAmerican Film, deputy editor ofThe Village Voice and arts editor ofThe Washington Post.[1]
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Linfield is the author ofThe Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky (2019), in which she asserts that leading leftist intellectuals shapedantisemitism andanti-Israel attitudes that she argued pervade contemporary progressive discourse.[2][3][4][5] Michael Fischbach in a review argued that Linfield is not an historian and makes serious errors of historical fact, while bringing her personal views to bear on the topic. She expects Palestinians, and leftist critics of Israel's policies, to forego aspirations for a Palestinian return from exile to their country, while justifying the appropriateness of precisely the same assertion for Jews in the case of Zionism's identical claim of a right of return.[6]
Linfield's book,The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence (2011),[7][8][1] was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and won theBerlin Prize.
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