LOS ANGELES – Doreen St. Félix, an award-winning critic and culture writer for The New Yorker, will visit Loyola Marymount University on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, to lead a discussion about the role critics play in shaping public discourse and challenging power structures.
Her talk, “Track Changes: The Authority of the Critic in Authoritarian Times,” comes as the world reacts to a White House that is reshaping the United States government and asserting greater and more consolidated control over a range of issues from funding, foreign aid, and trade, to immigration, gender, and education.
Presented by LMU’s Media, Arts & a Just Society, the event will explore the role of criticism and critique, which can provide clarity of vision, and of critics, who are not merely passive observers, but active participants in shaping discourse. St. Félix’s address will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Evelyn McDonnell, professor of journalism and director of MAJS.
St. Félix, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2017, is a regular contributor to the weekly column “Critic’s Notebook.” She was previously a culture writer at MTV News, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, The Fader, and Pitchfork. St. Félix was named in 2016 on the Forbes “30 Under 30” media list. St. Félix was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary in 2017; she won in the same category in 2019.
Media interested in attending should email news@lmu.edu or call 310.258.INFO.
WHAT: Media, Arts & a Just Society welcomes Doreen St. Félix for the talk “Track Changes: The Authority of the Critic in Authoritarian Times.”
WHEN: 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. A reception will follow.
WHERE: LMU’s McIntosh Center, University Hall Room 3999, 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, 90045.
MORE INFO: Register for the event here.
