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.
December 14, 2016
Juliana Broad is a New School writing student who wrote the following article for Literary Hub as a result of her work in Professor Berman’s Victorian Literature class at Lang. Very timely thoughts about labor! […]
The Department of Literary Studies welcomes Juan De Castro as co-chair, Literary Studies and Chair, Literature. Juan De Castro is the author of The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization and Cultural Production (Palgrave 2008), Mario Vargas Llosa: Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America (University of Arizona Press 2011), and edited Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics, with Nicholas Birns, (Palgrave 2010) and Critical Insights: Mario Vargas Llosa (2014). He takes over from Carolyn Vellenga Berman, who was co-chair of the department for 3 years. Juane De Castro has been in the Literary Studies Department since 2003.
Read his faculty profile here.
