A collection of inspiring student work, faculty writing, and more from the Literary Studies department at Eugene Lang. Even though the Lang community might be apart, we are still reading, writing, and creating, together.
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 7, 2018
Panel 1 on 09/25/17 Edith Grossman The special pleasure for me when I translate wonderfully written works like the novels of Gabriel García Márquez is that his brilliant prose filled with great swells of lyricism and poetic imagery challenges me to find a comparable flow in English. My abilities as a writer in my own language are stretched to their limit in their struggle to recreate the sound and the sense of his castellano castizo—pure traditional Spanish. He is a very experimental writer in many ways he writes in absolutely classical Spanish, classical in Spanish means 17th century.
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.
March 15, 2017
Composed between 2009-2012, Thom Donovan’s Withdrawn engages a social and political landscape through a densely speculative and intertextual lyricism. Proceeding through dedication and interlocution, the poems are ones of encounter (with art works, with specific individuals and communities, with social configurations and political events) where friendship, sociality, and politics interarticulate one another. Not unlike Arthur Rimbaud’s poetry in relation to the Paris Commune of 1871, the poems in the second half of the book write through the Occupy movement, resulting not so much in ‘Occupoems’ as meditations on a collective enunciation in the midst of its emergence. […]
A collection of inspiring student work, faculty writing, and more from the Literary Studies department at Eugene Lang. Even though the Lang community might be apart, we are still reading, writing, and creating, together.
