Katie Chenoweth

I teach 16th-century French literature at Princeton, which seems pretty far removed from the Epstein files. Here’s how I got here: when Roe v. Wade was overturned, I was furious and started looking into the right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court. At some point I realized that the same skills I used to do academic research translated into investigative research, and I began partnering with journalists at outlets like the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Intercept, and New York Magazine to develop stories and provide research on background. More recently, I’ve teamed up with veteran journalist Nina Burleigh on the weekly newsletter American Freakshow, where we’re relentlessly covering the Epstein files as part of Courier Newsroom’s investigative project “The Cover-Up.”