This year’s Afrofuturism Conference—happening April 29 to May 1 in New York—will be a series of “art happenings, performances, lectures, panels, workshops, film music,... Read More
We are excited to announce that in addition to the concentrations in Writing or Literature, undergraduate students across The New School may now also... Read More
What does it mean to study poetry in Literary Studies at Lang? Students explore what it means to be a writer and reader of... Read More
What is nonfiction and how can can I focus on it at Lang? Students in our nonfiction program write in a variety of modes... Read More
1. What have you been doing since graduation? The summer after I graduated Lang in 2014, my dad and I drove cross-country to my... Read More
by Colette Brooks As a culture, we tend to associate imaginative work with fiction; we have traditionally looked to nonfiction for guidance, expertise, and... Read More
The Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize is seeking original fiction from undergraduate students and offers a prize of $1000 for a story that “stirs, shifts, or... Read More
Marking the 200th birthday of Charlotte Brontë in 2016, illustrator Santiago Caruso took on the task of bringing out the haunting elements of Jane... Read More
Marking the 200th birthday of Charlotte Brontë in 2016, illustrator Santiago Caruso took on the task of bringing out the haunting elements of Jane Eyre for the Folio Society edition.
“The biggest challenge was to show Jane’s strong spirit, so the artists that have created a classical view of her. I wanted to materialise the poetry of the writing into the reality of the characters. To produce that effect, I emphasised dramatic elements to obtain some surreal shock, distorting the perception of reality.”
To learn more about this edition, visit here.
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. […]
This year’s Afrofuturism Conference—happening April 29 to May 1 in New York—will be a series of “art happenings, performances, lectures, panels, workshops, film music, scholarly works, and community events” organized by students from The New School. Like last year, the conference will explore “Afrofuturism as a cultural and aesthetic movement for the radical emancipation of people of color,” but with a particular focus on virality. For more information, go here.
