Thom Donovan is a poet, essayist, editor, curator, and archivist. He has a PhD from SUNY Buffalo. His books include The Hole (Displaced Press,... Read More
Simone White is a poet and critic. She has a PhD from the CUNY Graduate center and is the author of the poetry collections Of... Read More
Simone White is a poet and critic. She has a PhD from the CUNY Graduate center and is the author of the poetry collections Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem), Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse/Dossier Series) and House Envy of All the World (Factory School). A book of unusual critical prose, Dear Angel of Death, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling in 2017. She has taught American literature and writing at Hunter College, CUNY and Bard College.
She also serves as Program Director of The Poetry Project where she runs the historic Wednesday Night Reading Series, among other things.
Dr White will be teaching Transatlantic Modernism in the fall semester.
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.
September 14, 2016
The Literary Studies department welcomed its faculty and students back on Tuesday September 6. It was a great opportunity for new students to get to know the department, and to hear faculty Jennifer Firestone and Alexandra Chasin read from their recent publications. The event highlighted recent publications from a variety of faculty including Jennifer Firestone’s chapbook Swimming Pool; Wendy Walters’ Multiply/Divide: […]
Thom Donovan is a poet, essayist, editor, curator, and archivist. He has a PhD from SUNY Buffalo. His books include The Hole (Displaced Press, 2012), Withdrawn (Compline, fall 2016), and Withdrawn: a Discourse (Shifter, fall 2016). He is the co-editor and publisher of ON Contemporary Practice, and recently edited Occupy Poetics (Essay Press, 2015), Supple Science: a Robert Kocik Primer (with Michael Cross), and To Look At The Sea Is To Become What One Is: An Etel Adnan Reader (with Brandon Shimoda). Since 2006 he has edited the weblog Wild Horses of Fire. From 2011-2013 he was the Archive Manager of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation. He has taught at numerous institutions including Parsons, Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Wesleyan University, and Bard College.
He will be teaching Advanced Poetry in the fall semester.
