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.
March 13, 2016
by Colette Brooks As a culture, we tend to associate imaginative work with fiction; we have traditionally looked to nonfiction for guidance, expertise, and information, and nonfiction that doesn’t satisfy these aims is sometimes confusing. But just what is imagination? I thought it might be useful to consult the dictionary. […]
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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