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.
October 23, 2019
In this first book-length study of Tolstoy’s meditation on death, life, love, and happiness, Inessa Medzhibovskaya focuses on unknown documents and stories that illuminate the realities of Russian philosophical culture at the end of the long nineteenth century. Special attention is paid to Tolstoy’s involvement with the Moscow Psychological Society and its periodicals, to his friendship with its longtime Chairman Nikolai Grot, and to Tolstoy’s interactions with such outstanding figures of Russian thought as Nikolai Strakhov, Nikolai Fedorov, Lev Lopatin, and Vladimir Soloviev. What was Tolstoy’s relationship to Grot—the relation of a genius to a scribe, or a mentor to a disciple?
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.
December 7, 2016
Mark Greif, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, was awarded the Eighteenth Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship for his book, The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973, published by the Princeton University Press in 2015. […]
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.
