Aloff, Mindy

Mindy Aloff's writing on dance, literature, film, theater, and other cultural subjects has appeared widely in periodicals and anthologies, among them the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Nation, the New Republic, and the Forward. Her anthology, Dance Anecdotes, published by Oxford University Press, has just been reissued in paperback. A fellow of the Woodrow Wilson and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial foundations and a winner of a Whiting Writers Award, she currently teaches dance criticism, dance history, and a seminar in the personal essay at Barnard College, in New York City.