Mariano Siskind, Harvard University
Elaine Savory, Eugene Lang College
Juan E De Castro, Eugene Lang College
October 19, 6pm Orozco Room 712 66 West 12th Street, 7th Floor
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.
February 14, 2022
by Elaine Savory — Emeritus Professor of Literary Studies Two former Literary Studies students—Alexa Roccanova and Chrisila Maida—contributed to Wide Sargasso Sea at 50 (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), a collection of essays assembled by Elaine Savory and Erica Johnson on Jean Rhys’s famous novel. To celebrate the novel’s half-century birthday, Lit Studies at Lang held a symposium in 2016 to celebrate, one of several around the world that year, involving major Rhys scholars and creative writers. Alexa Roccanova’s design After studying the text in Professor Savory’s class, Alexa Roccanova chose the novel as inspiration for her Parsons fashion capstone. […]
Mariano Siskind, Harvard University
Elaine Savory, Eugene Lang College
Juan E De Castro, Eugene Lang College
October 19, 6pm Orozco Room 712 66 West 12th Street, 7th Floor
