Tim Riley
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, School of Communication
NPR critic Tim Riley has written widely about the Beatles and rock history, most recently with What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music In Their Time (with Walter Everett, Oxford University Press, 2019). His other books include Lennon: Man, Myth, Music (Hyperion, 2011), which the New York Times praised as “a critical tour-de-force,” Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1992, Da Capo 1999), Madonna: Illustrated (Hyperion 1992), and Fever: How Rock’N’Roll Transformed Gender In America (St. Martin’s/Picador 2005).
He has lectured on campuses nationwide discussing censorship in the arts and rock history, and was Brown University’s Critic-In-Residence in 2008. Publications including The New York Times, the Washington Post, Salon, Slate, and Radio Silence have all run his essays. He currently reviews books for the Los Angeles Review of Books
Courses
- Topics in Publishing and Writing
- Cultural Critisism
- Topics in Enterprise Jr
- Topics in Publishing
- Introduction to Multimedia Journalism
- Music Criticism
- Music Criticism: The Road to Beyonce and Taylor Swift
- Covering Pop Music: The Road to Taylor Swift and Beyoncé
- The Independent Magazine
