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.
October 27, 2021
Missed the Literary Studies Book Party? It’s not too late to see what it was all about! Watch the reading below! […]
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.
