Profile:
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 on Twitter and 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
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:
"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