The undergraduate creative writing program at The New School resides within the Literary Studies Department of Eugene Lang College. The Writing Track, as is it commonly called, allows students to pursue their creative in at least two genres: nonfiction, fiction, or poetry. As this program is also housed within the Literary Studies department, students are encouraged to study the literary traditions of their chosen genres to enhance their understanding of the place of literature in contemporary society.
Some of the distinguishing features of Lang’s program are seminar classes; opportunities for peer mentoring and teaching; and close student faculty relationships. By attending local literary events, meeting with editors and publishers, working on the college’s literary magazine, and students are introduced to the literary culture of New York City and the profession. Students receive significant individual attention as they progress towards the senior capstone: a polished manuscript.
Our faculty’s instruction emphasizes the study of form and content, with special emphasis on the development of each student’s voice. Other subfields of study within this major include translation studies and publishing. Students who major in Writing may choose to double major in Literature or another subject within the college. BAFA (Lang/Parsons) students are also well supported in this major. For more information on our faculty, visit here.
For more information about the course offerings, the curriculum and college, please visit TNS Eugene Lang College’s Literary Studies.
James Fuerst is the current chair of the Writing Program and Co-chair of Literary Studies.
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 25, 2016
This year’s Afrofuturism Conference—happening April 29 to May 1 in New York—will be a series of “art happenings, performances, lectures, panels, workshops, film music, scholarly works, and community events” organized by students from The New School. Like last year, the conference will explore “Afrofuturism as a cultural and aesthetic movement for the radical emancipation of people of color,” but with a particular focus on virality. For more information, go here.
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
On January 17, 2022, Greenlight Bookstore hosted a virtual book launch for Colette Brooks’ Trapped in the Present Tense: Meditations on American Memory. Jennifer Egan (Manhattan Beach, A Visit from the Goon Squad) joined Brooks for a singular discussion on memory writ large. […]
The undergraduate creative writing program at The New School resides within the Literary Studies Department of Eugene Lang College. The Writing Track, as is it commonly called, allows students to pursue their creative in at least two genres: nonfiction, fiction, or poetry. As this program is also housed within the Literary Studies department, students are encouraged to study the literary traditions of their chosen genres to enhance their understanding of the place of literature in contemporary society.
Some of the distinguishing features of Lang’s program are seminar classes; opportunities for peer mentoring and teaching; and close student faculty relationships. By attending local literary events, meeting with editors and publishers, working on the college’s literary magazine, and students are introduced to the literary culture of New York City and the profession. Students receive significant individual attention as they progress towards the senior capstone: a polished manuscript.
Our faculty’s instruction emphasizes the study of form and content, with special emphasis on the development of each student’s voice. Other subfields of study within this major include translation studies and publishing. Students who major in Writing may choose to double major in Literature or another subject within the college. BAFA (Lang/Parsons) students are also well supported in this major. For more information on our faculty, visit here.
For more information about the course offerings, the curriculum and college, please visit TNS Eugene Lang College’s Literary Studies.
James Fuerst is the current chair of the Writing Program and Co-chair of Literary Studies.
