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 16, 2016
We are excited to announce that in addition to the concentrations in Writing or Literature, undergraduate students across The New School may now also minor in these fields. Our programs have been designed with the goal of giving students rigor and flexibility in their course of study. MINOR IN WRITING Overview Students in Writing develop a unique authorial voice informed by an acquired familiarity with contemporary and classic styles. […]
The “decision to design and write a syllabus centering on the Dakota Access Pipeline is driven by the urgency of the situation and a desire to offer intellectual and curricular support to the ongoing resistance efforts. But most importantly, we are interested in supporting and contextualizing the Standing Rock struggle within literatures that can help those new to Sioux history and contemporary Indigenous politics and criticism to understand this issue within history, within the literature on toxicity and its dangers to the environment, and within gender and police violence within settler states. We hope our syllabus might help answer the questions “How did this happen”? “What do I need to read to get a handle on what’s happening?” and “What can we now do?””
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