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
[The Department of Literary Studies will be hosting a conference this fall on Wide Sargasso Sea, and to celebrate we are giving away five copies to any interested students. If you would like a copy, please write litstuds@newschool.edu. […]
Sarah Leonard interviews Ann Snitow for The Nation. The interview reflects on the future of feminism, with Leonard recounting that “For her, feminism is a genie loosed from its bottle: powerful, sometimes capricious, a great force for good but occasionally co-opted by villains. The interesting thing is not whether we can compel it to grant every wish, but how we can use it to keep changing the questions before us.”
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