Assistant professor of literary studies Jennifer Firestone published Gates and Fields earlier this year. Read a compelling interview with her about it here.
Faculty member David Gerrard has published The Epiphany Machine, a book that has been called “hilarious” and “razor-sharp” by The Washington Post, a “wildly charming, morally... Read More
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
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.
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
Literary Studies is thrilled to announce that poet Simone White, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literary Studies, and novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge, who will be joining... Read More
Composed between 2009-2012, Thom Donovan’s Withdrawn engages a social and political landscape through a densely speculative and intertextual lyricism.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... Read More
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 10, 2016
The “decision to design and write a syllabus centering on the Dakota Access Pipeline is driven by the urgency of the situation and a desire to offer intellectual and curricular support to the ongoing resistance efforts. But most importantly, we are interested in supporting and contextualizing the Standing Rock struggle within literatures that can help those new to Sioux history and contemporary Indigenous politics and criticism to understand this issue within history, within the literature on toxicity and its dangers to the environment, and within gender and police violence within settler states. We hope our syllabus might help answer the questions “How did this happen”? […]
Assistant professor of literary studies Jennifer Firestone published Gates and Fields earlier this year. Read a compelling interview with her about it here.
