Hilton Als

Hilton Als will be a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Performance Studies during the Fall 2025 semester, teaching graduate-level courses. A staff writer at The New Yorker since 1994, he began contributing to the magazine in 1989. He was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for criticism for his work there. His book "White Girls" (2014) received the Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Prior to The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. He edited the catalogue for the 1994-95 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art.” Als has curated exhibitions including “Desdemona for Celia by Hilton” at the Metropolitan Opera’s Gallery Met (2015) and “Alice Neel, Uptown” (2017). He is the editor of the 2024 collection “God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin.” Als has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Langston Hughes Medal. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Columbia University, Wesleyan University, and Smith College.

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