by Cyrus Patell | Sep 5, 2011 | Complete, Teaching, Writing New York
For many U.S. academics, Labor Day marks the end of summer: for my colleagues at NYU, tomorrow marks the beginning of the fall term. Today, therefore, seems like the right moment to announce Bryan’s and my new “course”: Virtual Writing New York, or vWNY for short. I’m...
by Bryan Waterman | May 23, 2011 | Out and About, People, Teaching, Writing New York |
This afternoon my Downtown Scenes class was fortunate enough to take a walking tour of the East Village (or a portion of the Lower East Side, as he would have it) with Cary Abrams, a long-time teacher, friend of PWHNY, and affiliate of the Lower East Side History...
by Bryan Waterman | May 23, 2011 | Teaching |
This week I begin teaching two summer courses, both of which are outgrowths of the Writing New York course I team-teach each year with Cyrus. The first is an undergraduate seminar called “Writing New York: The Downtown Scene, 1960-1980.” I pioneered it...
by Cyrus Patell | Mar 2, 2011 | Art, Books, Teaching |
One of the questions that I asked in today’s lecture was what we should make of this passage from the third chapter of Edith Wharton’s novel The Age of Innocence (1920): Wandering on to the bouton d’or drawing-room (where Beaufort had had the...
by Cyrus Patell | Mar 1, 2011 | Books, Teaching |
In my lecture last month on Herman Melville’s story “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street” (1853), I presented the story as a meditation on the kinds of selves that democratic urban modernity was producing in the United States in the middle...
by Bryan Waterman | Jan 23, 2011 | Port of New York, Teaching, Writing New York |
With our spring courses starting up — the Writing New York lecture Cyrus and I have team-taught since 2003 and my honors seminar The Port of New York, which I’ve taught periodically since 2006 — perhaps it makes sense for us to call our...
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