Congratulations to Dr. Julie Beth Napolin, recipient of the annual J.H. Stape Prize for best essay with “Music’s Unseen Body: Cowell, Conrad, Du Bois, and the Beginnings of... Read More
Lang’s very own Elizabeth Kendall, Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies, has been published on The New York Times! Her piece, titled... Read More
Eugene Lang’s very own Jennifer Firestone, Associate Professor and author, has released a book of poetry titled Story. “Story is a brilliant antidote to closure... Read More
In this first book-length study of Tolstoy’s meditation on death, life, love, and happiness, Inessa Medzhibovskaya focuses on unknown documents and stories that illuminate... Read More
Stephanie Leone, Literary Studies Alum, wrote an exciting feature about our course Reading for Writers: the Contemporary Short Story that we wanted to share with... 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 1, 2016
A book-launch celebrating Shifter’s 23rd issue, with readings and presentations by Bruce Andrews, Thom Donovan, Ian Dreiblatt, Robert Kocik, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Eléna Rivera, Gregory Sholette and Kathy Westwater. Saturday Nov 12, 4-6pm Printed Matter 231 11th Avenue New York, NY 10001 A book of metadiscourse, Withdrawn: A Discourse consists of 50 letters composed by Thom Donovan to the proper names of living personages which appear in his currently unpublished second book of poems, Withdrawn. […]
Congratulations to Dr. Julie Beth Napolin, recipient of the annual J.H. Stape Prize for best essay with “Music’s Unseen Body: Cowell, Conrad, Du Bois, and the Beginnings of American Experimental Music,” published in Conradiana (vol. 48 nos. 2-3).
From the author:
This essay unseats the traditional origin story of American experimental music as “organized sound” that moves from Henry Cowell to his student John Cage and to minimalism. It traverses a diasporic vibration.
Published in 2020, the essay was part of the 2017 “Conradian Crosscurrents: Creativity and Critique Conference” at Fordham University. The special issue of Conradiana (vol. 48 nos. 2-3) also features essays by Adriana Cavarero, James Clifford, and J. Hillis Miller.
(Download the essay here.)
