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 7, 2016
By Elaine Savory On October 22nd, Literary Studies is hosting a one day symposium on a very special book, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, which has a very special birthday this year. Published in 1966, this year the novel is fifty years old, so to speak. Our celebration is one in a series across the world which only proves how extensively this work is loved and respected. […]
