Margo Jefferson

Professor

Margo Jefferson is a cultural critic for The New York Times. She has been a daily book reviewer, the Sunday theater critic and a Sunday Book Review columnist. In 1995 She received a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995. Her book, On Michael Jackson, was published by Pantheon Books in 2006. She has been a Senior Fellow in Columbia University's National Arts Journalism Program and an Artist-in-Residence at Anna Deveare Smith's Institute for The Arts and Civic Dialogue. She has also written and performed two theater pieces at The Cherry Lane Theater and The Culture Project. She was a staff reviewer for Newsweek and a Contributing Editor to VOGUE. Essays that appeared in Grand Street and The Nation received awards from The Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and The American Library Association. She teaches at Columbia University and Eugene Lang College.