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David Yaffe (born January 1, 1973) grew up in Dallas, TX, where he attended the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He received his BA from Sarah Lawrence, and he began writing for The Village Voice while he was a student there, including a cover story on Sonny Rollins. He received his Ph.D in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where his teachers included Louis Menand, Morris Dickstein, Wayne Kostenbaum, Angus Fletcher, Harold Bloom (at NYU) and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. He is a professor of humanities at Syracuse University—where he began teaching in 2005–known for his critical writings on music. During the 2008-2009 academic year, he was the Gould Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Claremont McKenna College. He subsequently returned to Syracuse. He taught

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  • David Yaffe (born January 1, 1973) grew up in Dallas, TX, where he attended the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He received his BA from Sarah Lawrence, and he began writing for The Village Voice while he was a student there, including a cover story on Sonny Rollins. He received his Ph.D in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where his teachers included Louis Menand, Morris Dickstein, Wayne Kostenbaum, Angus Fletcher, Harold Bloom (at NYU) and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. He is a professor of humanities at Syracuse University—where he began teaching in 2005–known for his critical writings on music. During the 2008-2009 academic year, he was the Gould Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Claremont McKenna College. He subsequently returned to Syracuse. He taught (en)
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  • David Yaffe (born January 1, 1973) grew up in Dallas, TX, where he attended the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He received his BA from Sarah Lawrence, and he began writing for The Village Voice while he was a student there, including a cover story on Sonny Rollins. He received his Ph.D in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where his teachers included Louis Menand, Morris Dickstein, Wayne Kostenbaum, Angus Fletcher, Harold Bloom (at NYU) and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. He is a professor of humanities at Syracuse University—where he began teaching in 2005–known for his critical writings on music. During the 2008-2009 academic year, he was the Gould Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Claremont McKenna College. He subsequently returned to Syracuse. He taught in the English department from 2005-2013, and has been an unaffiliated professor of humanities ever since. He served as the Dean’s Fellow in the Humanities from 2013 to 2015. His writings have appeared in many publications, including The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Bookforum, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, Slate, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, The Daily Beast, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Since 2021, he has been a regular contributor to Air Mail. Along with Ruth Franklin, he was awarded the 2012 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, presented by the Center for Fiction. His third book, Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell (FSG, 2017), is the winner of the ASCAP/Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, and a Washington Post Notable Book of the year, 2017. So far, it has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Danish, and German. It has been optioned for a scripted series with Sony Entertainment. Among many other media appearances, including PBS Newshour, in December 2018 Yaffe appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Soul Music, discussing the Joni Mitchell song "River". In February, 2022, he started a Substack, Trouble Man:davidyaffe.substack.com (en)
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