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David Yaffe

Assistant Professor of Humanities
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David Yaffe is a nationally renowned arts critic and assistant professor of humanities in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, 

He is the author of Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing (Princeton, 2006) and Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (Yale, 2011). He is currently at work on Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, forthcoming).  He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on 20th  and 21st Century American fiction, poetry, music, and creative nonfiction.  He is a music critic for The Nation and has also written for Harper’s, Slate, The New York Times, New York, The Village Voice, The New Republic, Bookforum, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, and other publications.

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