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.
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.