Katie Roiphe Hired Scandal-Tainted Editor at NYU: Source

The ghosts of the Shitty Media Men list continue to haunt the industry.

Last week, New York University abruptly canceled a spring class taught by ex-The Paris Review editor Lorin Stein, who resigned from the literary magazine in 2017 after admitting to sexual misconduct. Now, Confider has learned that cultural critic Katie Roiphe was directly responsible for hiring Stein, her former editor at TPR. (Stein also praised Roiphe’s book The Violent Hour in TheParis Review in 2016, calling it “a revelation, at least to me.”)

Roiphe’s role as director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program allows for near-total discretion over the hiring of adjunct faculty members, according to a source familiar with NYU’s hiring process.

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