Katie Roiphe is an author and journalist. She is best known for her book, "The Morning After: Fear, Sex and Feminism" (1994). She is also known for threatening to expose the anonymous creator of the Shitty Media Men list in an article for Harper's magazine.
Roiphe is currently a professor at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the Director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program.
Roiphe has written six books, some of which are nonfiction and some novels. Her first book, "The Morning After," was controversial for arguing that in many instances of campus date rape, women are at least partly responsible for their actions.
Roiphe's reviews and essays have appeared in Vogue, Harper's, Slate, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
Roiphe was raised in New York City. She received her A.B. from Harvard University/Radcliffe College, and received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University.