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
Eleven and a Half, Eugene Lang’s literary journal, is seeking submissions from undergraduates! Whether your concentration is Poetry, Fiction, Art, or Nonfiction…all are welcome. ... Read More
The Foundationalist, a literary journal at Bowdoin College, is seeking submissions from undergraduates across the country. “The Foundationalist accepts literary essays, poetry, fiction, and creative... Read More
Literary Studies Welcome Back Tea & Faculty Reading – Thurs., September 10, 2020 (5:00 PM) Register here Literature Capstone Info Session – Tues., September... Read More
Carolyn Vellenga Berman, associate professor of Literature, reflected in Public Seminar on the experience of teaching our core course, Literary Reinvention, as it moved online... Read More
Professor Elizabeth Kendall offered some poignant closing thoughts during the 2020 Literary Studies Capstone Readings. Please see the transcription below. (The following speech took... Read More
Join us on Thursday, April 12th at 4pm for the Literature and Design Lecture featuring Rolena Adorno. Rolena Adorno is the Sterling Professor of Spanish at... Read More
Join us on February 15th, from 4-5:30pm for the Literary Department’s alumni reading event, featuring Allen Strouse!
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.
February 14, 2022
by Elaine Savory — Emeritus Professor of Literary Studies Two former Literary Studies students—Alexa Roccanova and Chrisila Maida—contributed to Wide Sargasso Sea at 50 (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), a collection of essays assembled by Elaine Savory and Erica Johnson on Jean Rhys’s famous novel. To celebrate the novel’s half-century birthday, Lit Studies at Lang held a symposium in 2016 to celebrate, one of several around the world that year, involving major Rhys scholars and creative writers. Alexa Roccanova’s design After studying the text in Professor Savory’s class, Alexa Roccanova chose the novel as inspiration for her Parsons fashion capstone. […]
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 “New York City’s Gift of Motion: A 1970s Tale”, is a reflection on Lindsay era New York City and her experience in the booming bohemian world of dance at the time.
New York was calling, even if I suspected it was too late for my still blurry, white suburban body to toughen up and find its muscles. I arrived one October day in 1973, to a city of strangers. Soon, though, thanks to some instant friends, I was in the dance fold, ensconced in an upper Broadway apartment with two modern dancer roommates. We lived at full speed: fanning out after part-time jobs to join the tribe of would-be dancers in the astonishing array of classes unwittingly hosted by the grimy city.
As we find ourselves in the halted world of quarantine, there is something deeply cathartic in reading about the bustling, grimy, ever-so-alive city Kendall describes.
To experience the vivid motion of the city’s past, don’t miss this article.
