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.
April 7, 2017
Claudius Speaks is accepting submissions for our Spring 2017 issue: Flight. Claudius Speaks is a platform for emerging voices to challenge the mind and move the heart. […]
While many Literary Studies classes for the fall semester are fully enrolled, there are some exciting classes that still have availability. Here are some details:
LLSL 2418, CRN 6070: American Lit 1620-1850
Instructor: Mark Greif
Meeting: TR 01:50 pm – 03:30 pm
Professor Greif is one of the co-founders of the intellectual and literary journal n+1 and has been a principal at the magazine since then. His recent collection of essays, Against Everything (2016), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Non-fiction.
LLSL 2663, CRN 4523: Intro. to English Poetry
Instructor: Elaine Savory
Meeting: TR 10:00 am – 11:40 am
This course introduces students to close analysis of poems, as well as following the development of Anglophone poetry from just before the time of Shakespeare to the end of the Romantic period.
Professor Savory has written two books on Jean Rhys (both with Cambridge University Press) and co-edited Out of the Kumbla, the first feminist collection of essays on Caribbean Literature. She is currently editing a “lost” West Indian novel, and completing a monograph on elegiac poetry “in the shadow of empire.”
LLSL 3372, CRN 6073: Crime and Salvation; Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
Instructor: Inessa Medzhibovskaya
Meeting: MW 11:55 am – 01:35 pm
Professor Medzhibovskaya received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Princeton University. She has widely published on Tolstoy and has also written on Pushkin and the interplay of philosophy and literary aesthetics. She’s currently working on Tolstoy in the Twentieth Century, a monograph for Princeton University Press.
LLST 3016, CRN 6038: Reading for Writers: Non-Fiction. Queer Narratives
Instructor Alexander Halberstadt
Meeting: F 09:00 am – 11:40 am
Alexander Halberstadt is author of the forthcoming Young Heroes of the Soviet Union, a memoir, and Lonely Avenue: the Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Food & Wine, New York, Grand Street, The Paris Review and elsewhere.
NWRG 5951, CRN 4811: Literary Translation Workshop
Instructor: Val Vinokur
Meeting: W 3:50 pm – 6:20 pm
This course fulfills an RFW or Secondary Genre requirement for Lit Studies. It introduces students to the art of literary translation and gives them the opportunity to workshop their own projects. It is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students working in any genre, so long as they have advanced reading proficiency in their source language and fluency in the target language (English).
