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Lee Siegel has been the book critic for the Nation, art critic for Slate, and television critic for the New Republic. He has written for Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, New York, the New York Observer, the New York Times, and many other publications. He is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in the Defense of the Imagination~ Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television~ and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. Siegel received the National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism in 2002. He is a visiting professor at Rutgers for 2008-09 to the Journalism and Media Studies, English, and American Studies Departments. In Fall 2008 he is teaching Literary Criticism, listed as a special topics course in the Journalism and Media Studies undergraduate program (04:567:473) and co-listed with History and American Studies. In Spring 2009 he will be teaching a class on Screen Culture, which will be listed as Journalism and Media Studies special topics 04:567:473, and co-listed with American Studies (01:050:301:02) and History. The class will be held in Loree 024, M/Th 12:35-1:55. |
