The UC Berkeley Comparative Literature Undergraduate Research Symposium 2016 committee is currently accepting proposals for its 5th annual conference. The conference will take place... 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.
April 5, 2017
Literary Studies is thrilled to announce that poet Simone White, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literary Studies, and novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge, who will be joining our writing faculty this coming fall, have been selected as recipients of this year’s very prestigious Whiting Award, which “awards $50,000 to ten diverse emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry.” Simone White is the author of Of Being Dispersed (2016) of which Michael Andor Brodeur of the Boston Globe said, “[H]er voice (sonic, sensual, seismic) leads you through her poems’ shifting centers without holding your hand.” She is also the author of House Envy of All the World (2010) and the chapbooks Dolly (2008) and Unrest (2013). […]
