Susie Linfield

Susie Linfield is a social and cultural theorist at New York University.

Background and education Between the ages of 8 and 15 Linfield was a student at George Balanchine's School 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 of Rudolf Nureyev. 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.

Linfield's book, The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence (2011), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and won the Berlin Prize.