October 10, 2019
Ann Snitow May 9, 1943-August 10, 2019 Ann Snitow, a founding faculty member of Lang College and the creator of the Gender Studies Program at the New School, passed away on August 10, 2019. She was a beloved member of the Literary Studies faculty. While indeed her books and essays are crucial texts in feminist studies and in the life of the mind, as Literary Studies colleagues our remembrances here are more personal, testaments not just to her work but to the power of her being.
June 14, 2017
We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Professor of Literary Studies, Neil Gordon. Read his obituary here. […]
Literary Studies is thrilled to announce that poet Simone White, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literary Studies, and novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge, who will be joining our writing faculty this coming fall, have been selected as recipients of this year’s very prestigious Whiting Award, which “awards $50,000 to ten diverse emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry.” Simone White is the author of Of Being Dispersed (2016) of which Michael Andor Brodeur of the Boston Globe said, “[H]er voice (sonic, sensual, seismic) leads you through her poems’ shifting centers without holding your hand.” She is also the author of House Envy of All the World (2010) and the chapbooks Dolly (2008) and Unrest (2013). She received from her MFA from the New School. Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of the “terrifically auspicious debut novel” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) We Love You, Charlie Freeman. Her work has also appeared in a range of publications, including The New York Times, Elle.com, the Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, and American Short Fiction. She received her MFA from Hunter College and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
