Missed the Literary Studies Book Party? It’s not too late to see what it was all about! Watch the reading below! On October 21st,... Read More
Eugene Lang’s very own Jennifer Firestone, Associate Professor and author, has released a book of poetry titled Story. “Story is a brilliant antidote to closure... Read More
Inside a Eugene Lang College classroom, students prepare to brave the world outside, armed with stories.
In Reading for Writers: The Contemporary Short Story, “students will read and engage with the work of some of the best living practitioners of the short story and bring five of them into the classroom for in depth conversations on their writing, their methods, their influences, their intentions, and their lives as writers.” So begins the syllabus for a dream course taught by Eric Simonoff, acclaimed literary agent and new professor in the Literary Studies department at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. Simonoff represents writers of incredible caliber, including Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Lethem, Philipp Meyer, Stacy Schiff, Edward P. Jones, Nam Le, and Chris Adrian, among others. Although he is characteristic of faculty at The New School, shaping his classroom and his field of work simultaneously, he is not a typical undergraduate writing instructor. In granting his students access to brilliant, contemporary writers — Phil Klay, Daniel Alarcón, Maryse Meijer, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, and ZZ Packer in the Fall 2018 semester — he is demystifying perhaps the most frightening aspect of writing: how to get someone (like Simonoff) to read your work.”
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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 26, 2017
John (Colin) Marston, Class of 2017 I’m attending a six-week Jewish Studies program through the Leo Baeck Institute at Humboldt University in Berlin. I’ll be spending the bulk of the program studying the interaction and integration of Eastern European Jews into Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries, and their respective representation in the novels, criticism, news coverage, and art of that milieu. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the reportage of Austrian-Jewish novelist Joseph Roth, and how he distilled the image of the Eastern European Jew or Ostjuden as a response to questions of authenticity and identity in an increasingly precarious inter-war Europe. […]
Missed the Literary Studies Book Party? It’s not too late to see what it was all about! Watch the reading below!
On October 21st, faculty members Justin Neuman, Juan de Castro, Dianca Potts, A.W. Strouse, and Wendy Xu read from their new books, which were raffled off to members of the audience. It was a truly wonderful evening, celebrating some of the great writing coming from The New School community.
Although it is too late to try your luck at a book raffle, you can find all the books from the readings at the following links:
Justin Neuman – Modernism and its Environments (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020).
Juan de Castro – Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui (Haymarket, 2020).
Dianca Potts – Planning for the Apocalypse
A.W. Strouse – Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision (Fordham University Press, 2021).
Wendy Xu – The Past (Wesleyan U. Press, 2021).
Be sure to keep an eye out for future Literary Studies events on the Public Programs Calendar!
