The undergraduate creative writing program at The New School resides within the Literary Studies Department of Eugene Lang College. The Writing Track, as is it commonly called, allows students to pursue their creative in at least two genres: nonfiction, fiction, or poetry. 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, meeting with editors and publishers, working on the college’s literary magazine, and 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: a polished manuscript.
Our faculty’s instruction emphasizes the study of form and content, with special emphasis on the development of each student’s voice. Other subfields of study within this major include translation studies and publishing. Students who major in Writing may choose to double major in Literature 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.
James Fuerst is the current chair of the Writing 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.
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.
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.
May 13, 2016
From Alice Vincent at the Telegraph (UK): “Thanks to an idea from writer and educator Candice Benbow, a free syllabus of hundreds of references to works that accompany and help explain Lemonade’s meaning has been created and released online. Less than a week after Lemonade’s release, Benbow posted on Twitter that she had been contemplating creating the Lemonade Syllabus, as it has become known. […]
The undergraduate creative writing program at The New School resides within the Literary Studies Department of Eugene Lang College. The Writing Track, as is it commonly called, allows students to pursue their creative in at least two genres: nonfiction, fiction, or poetry. 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, meeting with editors and publishers, working on the college’s literary magazine, and 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: a polished manuscript.
Our faculty’s instruction emphasizes the study of form and content, with special emphasis on the development of each student’s voice. Other subfields of study within this major include translation studies and publishing. Students who major in Writing may choose to double major in Literature 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.
James Fuerst is the current chair of the Writing Program and Co-chair of Literary Studies.
