The undergraduate literature program at The New School resides within the Literary Studies Department of Eugene Lang College. The Literature Track, as is it commonly called, offers a major and a minor in the study of literature. As this program is also housed within the Literary Studies department, students are encouraged to study the literary traditions of their chosen genres to enhance their understanding of the place of literature in contemporary society.
Some of the distinguishing features of Lang’s program are seminar classes; opportunities for peer mentoring and teaching; and close student faculty relationships. By attending local literary events, private libraries and archives, and meeting top scholars in the field, students are introduced to the literary culture of New York City and the profession. Students receive significant individual attention as they progress towards the senior capstone: the researched thesis. Our literature faculty’s instruction emphasizes the study of history and innovation, with special emphasis on the social and cultural factors affecting the development and reception of new work.
Other sub-fields of study within this major include Russian Literature, Jewish Literature, Latin American Literature, Modernism, as well as student designed concentrations. Students who major in The Literature Track may choose to double major in Writing or another subject within the college. BAFA (Lang/Parsons) students are also well supported in this major. For more information on our faculty, visit here.:
For more information about the course offerings, the curriculum and college, please visit TNS Eugene Lang College’s Literary Studies.
Associate Professor Carolyn Berman is the current chair of the Literature Program and Co-chair of Literary Studies.
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.
November 4, 2016
“Beatty’s book is not the kind of book that American publishers, even literary ones, are typically betting on these days. Satirical, pointed, postmodern, even arch, it is thought of as “difficult”. Many people have described it to me as inaccessible, and at least some of those people are Beatty’s admirers.
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.
October 26, 2017
John (Colin) Marston, Class of 2017 I’m attending a six-week Jewish Studies program through the Leo Baeck Institute at Humboldt University in Berlin. I’ll be spending the bulk of the program studying the interaction and integration of Eastern European Jews into Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries, and their respective representation in the novels, criticism, news coverage, and art of that milieu. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the reportage of Austrian-Jewish novelist Joseph Roth, and how he distilled the image of the Eastern European Jew or Ostjuden as a response to questions of authenticity and identity in an increasingly precarious inter-war Europe. […]
The undergraduate literature program at The New School resides within the Literary Studies Department of Eugene Lang College. The Literature Track, as is it commonly called, offers a major and a minor in the study of literature. As this program is also housed within the Literary Studies department, students are encouraged to study the literary traditions of their chosen genres to enhance their understanding of the place of literature in contemporary society.
Some of the distinguishing features of Lang’s program are seminar classes; opportunities for peer mentoring and teaching; and close student faculty relationships. By attending local literary events, private libraries and archives, and meeting top scholars in the field, students are introduced to the literary culture of New York City and the profession. Students receive significant individual attention as they progress towards the senior capstone: the researched thesis. Our literature faculty’s instruction emphasizes the study of history and innovation, with special emphasis on the social and cultural factors affecting the development and reception of new work.
Other sub-fields of study within this major include Russian Literature, Jewish Literature, Latin American Literature, Modernism, as well as student designed concentrations. Students who major in The Literature Track may choose to double major in Writing or another subject within the college. BAFA (Lang/Parsons) students are also well supported in this major. For more information on our faculty, visit here.:
For more information about the course offerings, the curriculum and college, please visit TNS Eugene Lang College’s Literary Studies.
Associate Professor Carolyn Berman is the current chair of the Literature Program and Co-chair of Literary Studies.
