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Katie Roiphe To Turn N.Y.U. Girls Into Women

choire · 05/15/07 12:37PM

Congratulations to Katie Roiphe, who is now on the permanent faculty of N.Y.U. (Although the school would probably say differently, in a sense she got feminist superhero Ellen Willis's old job.) Roiphe, who once wrote an infamous screed about the "guerrilla feminists" who made a generation of girls afraid of rape on campus (unlike the previous generation, which was just afraid of rapists on campus), will somehow be the "assistant director of the graduate Cultural Reporting and Criticism program" in the journalism program. Ms. Roiphe, who captivated a nation with such musings as "I wondered who they wanted the night back from and what they wanted it back for," teaches a class called "A History of Women Cultural Critics," which introduces students to important writings by women such as Nellie Bly, Susan Sontag and Maureen Dowd.