The Department of Literary Studies welcomes Juan De Castro as co-chair, Literary Studies and Chair, Literature. Juan De Castro is the author of The Spaces... Read More
We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Professor of Literary Studies, Neil Gordon. Read his obituary here.
Associate Professor of Literary Studies Paul Kottman’s latest book, Love As Human Freedom is available now! Rather than see love as a natural form of... Read More
Literary Studies Faculty member Rachel Aydt has published an essay called The Pilgrims in The White Review. Read her beautiful essay here.
Associate Professor Alexandra Chasin’s project, Writing On It All, returns to Governors Island for its fifth season. It begins May 27th! Read all about... Read More
Assistant Professor Jennifer Firestone’s new publication is out! In Gates & Fields, Jennifer Firestone conjures Emily Dickinson to serve as the Virgil of this brave... Read More
When Robin Mookerjee died last year, in May 2016, he left behind a considerable amount of unpublished writing, including poems and short stories. Lucy... Read More
Literary Studies professor Jennifer Firestone’s ‘This Place’ is Poem-a-Day from the Academy of the American Poets! Read her poem here.
Literary Studies professor Jennifer Firestone’s ‘This Place’ is Poem-a-Day from the Academy of the American Poets! Read her poem 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.
October 19, 2016
By Brendan Heldenfels, Eugene Lang College, Class of 2015 In the days after Professor Robin Mookerjee’s passing in May 2016, I scoured Facebook for memories and recollections of him, desperate to hang on to pieces of him left behind. Among those memories was a posting Robin made: “Common sense is a form of insanity. […]
The Department of Literary Studies welcomes Juan De Castro as co-chair, Literary Studies and Chair, Literature. Juan De Castro is the author of The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization and Cultural Production (Palgrave 2008), Mario Vargas Llosa: Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America (University of Arizona Press 2011), and edited Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics, with Nicholas Birns, (Palgrave 2010) and Critical Insights: Mario Vargas Llosa (2014). He takes over from Carolyn Vellenga Berman, who was co-chair of the department for 3 years. Juane De Castro has been in the Literary Studies Department since 2003.
Read his faculty profile here.
