Alisa Solomon
Professor

Master’s Progam in Business Journalism
Weissman School of Arts & Sciences
Baruch College, CUNY

Phone: 646-312-3929
Room 7-267, Vertical Campus
E-mail: Alisa_Solomon@baruch.cuny.edu

Alisa Solomon, a member of the Baruch faculty since 1987, has taught a wide range of courses, advised student projects and served as Director of Undergraduate Journalism, while continuing to write newsfeatures, cultural criticism and essays for a variety of publications. Over the last 15 years, she has written hundreds of articles for The Village Voice, filing stories from within Operation Rescue's siege of Wichita, Kansas, and from the midst of the Gulf War in the Gaza Strip; from the shadows of Jewish history in Vilnius, Lithuania, and from deal-making meetings of emergent political organizations in immigrant communities of Queens, New York; from street protests against police brutality in midtown Manhattan, and from the steamy courts and locker rooms of the WNBA. She has investigated custody battles involving gay and lesbian parents for Out magazine, and uncovered a scandalous sexual harassment case at the National Institutes of Health for Mirabella. In recent years, she has concentrated on the immigration beat, publishing major investigations on immigrant detention for The Village Voice and POZ Magazine. Her journalism has won awards from the National Women's Political Caucus, the Women's Sports Foundation and Planned Parenthood.

Professor Solomon holds a doctorate in Dramatic Literature and Criticism from Yale University, and in addition to writing regular theater reviews and features for The Village Voice, she has written arts features for The New York Times, Newsday and The Los Angeles Times, as well as articles on classical and contemporary theater, from Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks, for journals such as Theater and American Theater and for a number of anthologies. She is co-editor (with Framji Minwalla) of the forthcoming volume, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater. Her book, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender, won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.

Professor Solomon’s range of interests as a writer is reflected in her teaching at Baruch. Among the many courses she has taught, her favorites include Feature Writing, Advocacy Journalism, Sports Writing, Media Ethics and a media analysis course called Perspectives on the News.