THE NEW SCHOOL NAMES NEIL GORDON DEAN OF
EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS
New York, NY — The New School has announced the appointment of Neil Gordon as Dean of Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. A professor of writing at The New School since 2002, Dr. Gordon has served as the chair of Writing at Lang and was the co-chair of Writing and Literature.
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts is the newest and fastest-growing urban liberal arts college in New York. With a diversity of students, faculty, and academics, Lang College is a seminar-style liberal arts college established in 1985 that offers intensive liberal arts study by a distinguished faculty committed to teaching undergraduates in an interdisciplinary context.
“I am proud to welcome Neil Gordon as the new Dean of Lang College,” said Bob Kerrey, president of The New School. “As a distinguished writer and an acclaimed teacher, Neil brings both vision and skill to the leadership of Lang’s progressive liberal arts tradition. During his time at The New School, Neil is credited with grounding the school’s high-profile undergraduate writing program in an expansive and inclusive liberal arts curriculum. I look forward to working with him to utilize his leadership skills and creativity on behalf of the future of Lang and the university as a whole.”
Dr. Gordon is a fiction writer and critic. He is the author of three well-received novels: Sacrifice of Isaac (Random House, Bantam, 1996 and Penguin, 2004); The Gun Runner’s Daughter (Random House and Bantam, 1999); and The Company You Keep (Viking and Penguin 2004), with a fourth completed and under review. He has published over twenty distinguished essays and dozens of book reviews, many appearing in The New York Times Book Review. Dr. Gordon is also the literary editor of The Boston Review and, prior to joining The New School, worked in a variety of editorial capacities at The New York Review of Books, Granta, and The Reader's Catalog.
Dr. Gordon’s honors and grants include a National Endowment for the Arts grant to The Boston Review, in support of an article series, “Imagining the Enemy,” 2007, and a Lila Wallace grant to The Boston Review for creation of “The New Fiction Forum,” 2002. In 2004, he was a finalist in The Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Notable Book of the Year in The New York Times.
Educated at Yale University (Ph.D., French, 1991) and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (B.A., English, 1980), Dr. Gordon was an Instructor in Language at Yale University prior to joining The New School.
ABOUT THE NEW SCHOOL
Located in the heart of New York’s Greenwich Village, The New School is a center of academic excellence where intellectual and artistic freedoms thrive. The more than 9,600 matriculated students and approximately 5,300 continuing education students come from around the world to participate in a wide range of undergraduate to doctoral programs in art and design, the social sciences, management and urban policy, the humanities and the performing arts. When The New School was founded in 1919, its mission was to create a place where global peace and justice were more than theoretical ideals. Today, The New School continues that mission, with programs that strive to foster engaged world citizenship. The eight schools that make up The New School are: The New School for General Studies, The New School for Social Research, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, Parsons The New School for Design, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, Mannes College The New School for Music, The New School for Drama, and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu.
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