Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street
The Department of Literary Studies presents a public symposium to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jean Rhys’s most famous and influential novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. This day-long symposium is the latest in a worldwide series of events marking the occasion.
Speakers include novelist Robert Antoni, author of Blessed is the Fruit and As Flies to Whatless Boys; novelist Caryl Phillips, author of Dancing in the Dark and The Lost Child; critic and cultural historian Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, author of Literatures of the Caribbean and Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life; critic and cultural historian Erica Johnson, author of Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, and coeditor of Jean Rhys: Twenty-First Century Approaches; and Literary Studies professor Elaine Savory, author of Jean Rhys and Introduction to Jean Rhys.
The event is free and open to the public.
https://events.newschool.edu/event/jean_rhyss_wide_sargasso_sea_a_celebration#.V_598vkrKJA
Download program here or view it online here. Read Elaine Savory’s post on the program here.
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.
April 12, 2017
Rufi Thorpe (Class of 2006, Eugene Lang College) received her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2009, and is the author of two novels and numerous essays. Her second novel, Dear Fang, With Love, published by Knopf, came out this past May, 2016. Her first novel, The Girls from Corona del Mar, also published by Knopf, came out in 2014. […]
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street
The Department of Literary Studies presents a public symposium to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jean Rhys’s most famous and influential novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. This day-long symposium is the latest in a worldwide series of events marking the occasion.
Speakers include novelist Robert Antoni, author of Blessed is the Fruit and As Flies to Whatless Boys; novelist Caryl Phillips, author of Dancing in the Dark and The Lost Child; critic and cultural historian Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, author of Literatures of the Caribbean and Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life; critic and cultural historian Erica Johnson, author of Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, and coeditor of Jean Rhys: Twenty-First Century Approaches; and Literary Studies professor Elaine Savory, author of Jean Rhys and Introduction to Jean Rhys.
The event is free and open to the public.
https://events.newschool.edu/event/jean_rhyss_wide_sargasso_sea_a_celebration#.V_598vkrKJA
Download program here or view it online here. Read Elaine Savory’s post on the program here.
