Film Critic, New York Times
April 7, 2011 - 5:00pm
Criticism Outside the Classroom: A Reviewer Talks About His Work
Linsly Chittenden Hall, Room 101
63 High Street
About A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott joined The New York Times as a film critic in January 2000. Previously, he was a Sunday book reviewer for Newsday, and a frequent contributor to Slate, The New York Review of Books and many other publications.
A.O. Scott graduated with a B.A. degree in Literature (magna cum laude) from Harvard College in 1988 and was a grad-school dropout (from Johns Hopkins, in American Literature). He has also served on the editorial staffs of Lingua Franca and The New York Review of Books.
His address is part of the series “Criticism Outside the Classroom: A Reviewer Talks About His Work” and is sponsored by the English Department and the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism at Yale.