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
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... Read More
Saturday October 22, 2016 Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, New York 10:00am – Welcome James Fuerst and Elaine Savory (The New School)... Read More
On October 27th the Poetry Society of America is hosting the Pulitzer Centennial Poetry Celebration, where 13 Pulitzer Prize-winning poets will share the stage to... Read More
By Elaine Savory On October 22nd, Literary Studies is hosting a one day symposium on a very special book, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, which... Read More
Literary Studies’s very own Mark Greif has received a lot of attention for his new book Against Everything. Read the New York Times book review... Read More
The Lang First Year Writing blog recently featured our very own Mark Greif’s book Against Everything. Read more here: https://portfolio.newschool.edu/firstyearwriting/2016/09/06/against-everything/
The Literary Studies department welcomed its faculty and students back on Tuesday September 6. It was a great opportunity for new students to get... 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.
August 2, 2017
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 serious bildungsroman with the rare potential to change the way readers think” by Publishers Weekly, and “one of the year’s finest books” by Largehearted Boy. Purchase the book here. […]
An exciting new single author course, taught by Lang Dean Stephanie Browner in Spring 2017, will engage Black Lives Matter through the life of Charles Chesnutt! This class will collaborate with a Parsons Design class on editing and presenting manuscripts.
LLST 3524 – Black Lives Matter: Reading and Editing Charles Chesnutt – CRN 7604 – Fridays 12:10-2:50pm
This course engages in intensive close readings of Charles Chesnutt, one of America’s most important fiction writers on race after the Civil War. As an African American youth, he saw African Americans elected to office and taking on major civic roles as they laid claim to their full civil rights. And then as an adult he witnessed the utter political disenfranchisement of blacks and the rise of white supremacy through economic oppression and physical terror. We read Chesnutt’s perceptive novels and short stories closely and explore his writing process by studying manuscripts of his key works. Students will have the unusual opportunity to contribute to ongoing work on a set of complete works by Chesnutt to be published by Oxford University Press. Scholarly editing raises complex questions, many of which have never been considered in the context of race since so few black writers have had their works appear in major scholarly editions. Students will be introduced to scholarly editing, including digital and print editing, and will do hands-on editorial work with manuscripts, collaborating with Parsons design students. This course fulfills the Single Text/Single Author requirement in Literary Studies.
