Scott Korb
Assistant Professor; Director of the First Year Writing Program
Email
korbs@newschool.edu
Office Location
B - Eugene Lang College Building - 65 West 11th Street
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Scott Korb, director of First-Year Writing, has been teaching writing courses and advising seminars at Eugene Lang since 2007, often with a focus on religion, food, music, narrative nonfiction, and the writings of David Foster Wallace. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Faith Between Us (Bloomsbury, 2007), Life in Year One (Riverhead, 2010), Light without Fire (Beacon, 2013), and two academic titles: The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (UNC Press, 2008), winner of the American Historical Association's J. Franklin Jameson award, and Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). He can be found at his New School teaching portfolio.
Degrees Held
BA, English and Creative Writing, University of Wisconsin—Madison
MA, Theology, Union Theological Seminary
MA, Literature, Columbia University
Professional Affiliation
PEN America
New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Pacific University's MFA in Writing Program
Recent Publications
Recent books:
Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy
Light without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College
Recent other writing:
"Culture Shock," Oxford American
"The Extravagant Inversion of Values," Popula
"The Soul-Crushing Student Essay," The New York Times
"Between the Wolf in the Tall Grass and the Wolf in the Tall Story," Longreads
"Misskiss," Guernica
"Something More Than Correctness," Literary Hub
"Writing Our America," Longreads
"Resistance Literature: On Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," Literary Hub
"Baldwin in the Obama Years," Guernica
"Give Me Love," Los Angeles Review of Books
Review of The Hero's Body, Bookforum
"The Courage to Sound like Ourselves," from When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life, ed. Kwame Dawes, Pacific University Press
"Good For You," Virginia Quarterly Review
"On Chest Hair and the Mystery of Fathers," Lit Hub
"Friends to this Ground," Guernica
"Guantánamo Diary and the American Slave Narrative," New Yorker Page-Turner blog
"Forced Feeding," Virgnina Quarterly Review
"Fast Food," Lucky Peach
"Our Common Trouble," Harper's
Research Interests
race in America, the American Civil War, criminal justice and prison reform, religion, music, food, David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith
Current Courses
First Year Seminar
Independent Study
LGI: Lat. Am. Perspectives (Spring 2019)
LGI: Social Justice Immersion (Spring 2019)
LGI: Spanish Immersion Int. (Spring 2019)
Writing Craft-Lesson Lunches
Writing Craft-Lesson Lunches (Spring 2019)
Writing the Essay II
Writing the Essay II (Spring 2019)