Claudia Rankine, AWP 2016 Keynote speaker and author of the National Book Award–winning Citizen: An American Lyric, plans to donate the funds of her... Read More
An exciting new single author course, taught by Lang Dean Stephanie Browner in Spring 2017, will engage Black Lives Matter through the life of... Read More
Artistic Director Alexandra Chasin, Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Lang College, The New School, created Writing On It All, a participatory writing project open... Read More
From Alice Vincent at the Telegraph (UK): “Thanks to an idea from writer and educator Candice Benbow, a free syllabus of hundreds of references to... Read More
In December 2014, American Theatre Magazine posted their version of the #FergusonSyllabus, a list of resources relating to questions of racial and economic justice. ... 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.
May 14, 2016
Playwriting courses are offered through The Arts and can be combined with any major or minor program in Literary Studies. In the course, students employ a series of exercises to develop characters, settings, scenes, plot, and eventually a one-act play. Students read and discuss their plays in class during the writing and revising process; they also analyze a variety of dramatic texts and other sources to discover individual voice and understand narrative structure. […]
Claudia Rankine, AWP 2016 Keynote speaker and author of the National Book Award–winning Citizen: An American Lyric, plans to donate the funds of her MacArthur “genius grant,” the Guardian reports. Her $625,000 stipend will go toward the founding of the Racial Imaginary Institute, a think tank where artists and writers have the space to “show art, to curate dialogues, have readings, and talk about the ways in which the structure of white supremacy in American society influences our culture,” Rankine said to the Guardian. The gallery will be in downtown Manhattan, “where those discussions begin,” and where “culture really does determine what we think [and] how we think about things.”
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