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.
February 14, 2022
by Elaine Savory — Emeritus Professor of Literary Studies Two former Literary Studies students—Alexa Roccanova and Chrisila Maida—contributed to Wide Sargasso Sea at 50 (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), a collection of essays assembled by Elaine Savory and Erica Johnson on Jean Rhys’s famous novel. To celebrate the novel’s half-century birthday, Lit Studies at Lang held a symposium in 2016 to celebrate, one of several around the world that year, involving major Rhys scholars and creative writers. Alexa Roccanova’s design After studying the text in Professor Savory’s class, Alexa Roccanova chose the novel as inspiration for her Parsons fashion capstone. […]
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!
