The Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards are bestowed annually to New School students for the best responses inspired by works in... Read More
The Lang First Year Writing blog recently featured our very own Mark Greif’s book Against Everything. Read more here: https://portfolio.newschool.edu/firstyearwriting/2016/09/06/against-everything/
The Literary Studies department welcomed its faculty and students back on Tuesday September 6. It was a great opportunity for new students to get... Read More
By Michael F. Pettinger (Assistant Professor of Literary Studies) This semester, the Literary Studies program welcomes Fiore Sireci and Justin Neuman, who will join... Read More
Entries for The Nation’s student writing contest close Monday September 19, 2016. https://www.thenation.com/article/the-2016-nation-student-writing-contest/
PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers seeks volunteer interns to assist with production of the magazine, both ink-and-paper and online editions. The journal... Read More
Thom Donovan is a poet, essayist, editor, curator, and archivist. He has a PhD from SUNY Buffalo. His books include The Hole (Displaced Press,... Read More
Simone White is a poet and critic. She has a PhD from the CUNY Graduate center and is the author of the poetry collections Of... Read More
Simone White is a poet and critic. She has a PhD from the CUNY Graduate center and is the author of the poetry collections Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem), Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse/Dossier Series) and House Envy of All the World (Factory School). A book of unusual critical prose, Dear Angel of Death, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling in 2017. She has taught American literature and writing at Hunter College, CUNY and Bard College.
She also serves as Program Director of The Poetry Project where she runs the historic Wednesday Night Reading Series, among other things.
Dr White will be teaching Transatlantic Modernism in the fall semester.
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 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.
November 21, 2017
The Epiphany Machine, published by faculty member David Gerrard, has been named one of the year’s 5 best Sci-Fi books by The Washington Post! The Epiphany Machine has also been called “wildly charming, morally serious bildungsroman with the rare potential to change the way readers think” by Publishers Weekly, and “one of the year’s finest books” by Largehearted Boy. Check out the book here. […]
The Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards are bestowed annually to New School students for the best responses inspired by works in the university’s art collection. The awards were established in 1996 by the late Vera List, a life trustee of The New School, to celebrate the creative and critical thinking of New School students, and the impact of contemporary art in The New School’s academic life.
A rotating panel of judges selects the winning entries—two $400 first-place awards and two $200 second-place awards. Winners are announced in The New School News and various New School blogs and social media platforms. In a new collaboration with the U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the winning entries will be edited by a professional editor.
We are pleased to announce Macushla Robinson as the winner of the 2015-2016 Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Award. Macushla is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research This year’s competition called for responses to three site-specific artworks: For Comrades and Lovers by Glenn Ligon, Alfredo Jaar’s, Searching for Africa in LIFE and Rita McBride’s Bells and Whistles, which are all located throughout The New School’s University Center.
Entries must be received by January 17, 2017.
Guidelines for entry can be found here:
http://www.veralistcenter.org/lead/3/writing-awards/
