Alexander Lanz
Alex Lanz
105 Vanderveer Street Apt. 3F
Brooklyn, NY, 11207
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EXPERIENCE
May Day Student Organization
Founding member, editorial and public speaker
New York, NY
Mar 2019 - Present
Founded a new progressive student organization with chapters in The New School, City College, and Brooklyn College. Delivered talks at student and activist conferences and speeches at demonstrations that solidified the group�s reputation as a serious political body and a leader on the student front in New York City.
Managed social media accounts and published literature on the organization�s website.
Conceived, prepared, facilitated public events and conducted detailed administrative work for The New School chapter.
Daily Transcription
Freelance transcriber
New York, NY
Aug 2017 - Present
Provided transcriptions, verbatim or clean, for interviews, podcasts, TV and film post-production, while meeting strict 72-hour deadlines.
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Contest Judge
New York, NY
Jan 2019
Selected as a national juror to adjudicate the work of young writers, committed to 10-hour reading periods.
Read and judged over 100 entries of fiction, memoir, poetry, and dramatic script by teenage writers.
Red Room Bar at KGB
MC for The New School After Hours series and Red Room Poetry series
New York, NY
Sep 2016 � Aug 2017
Struck an authentic tone and unique atmosphere through an energetic hosting style that led to outstanding evenings, well remembered by the readers, audience members, and bar staff.
The New School
Graduate Research Assistant for Robert Polito
New York, NY
Sep 2016 � June 2017
Fast and efficient research for nonfiction books on Bob Dylan and Barbara Payton.
Digitized vintage photographs, tintypes, clippings and collected papers.
Prepared poetry syllabus and course materials for a writing workshop.
Extensive use of Library of Congress online archives.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Short story: �The Old Woman and the Axe� Airgonaut, April 2019.
Book review: �Marxist Literary Criticism Today,� Full Stop, August 2019.
Essay: �A Wreath For William H. Gass,� Empty Mirror, December 2018.
�Interview With NBCC Criticism Finalist Peter Orner,� The New School Creative Writing, March 2017.
Memoir: �Beyond Portland,� The Seventh Wave, November 2015.
EDUCATION
The New School for Social Research
MA Liberal Studies
New York, NY
Expected May 2020
Thesis on Marxist literary theory, particularly critical and theoretical methods of Fredric Jameson and Louis Althusser. �Praised by many� on the faculty.
The New School for Public Engagement
MFA Creative Writing
New York, NY
May 2017
Creative thesis: Palm Trees in the Field, a Family Memoir.
Critical thesis: The Language Poets and the Essay.
Elective graduate courses in literature and philosophy, and teaching writing.
Alex Lanz
105 Vanderveer Street Apt. 3F
Brooklyn, NY, 11207
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EXPERIENCE
May Day Student Organization
Founding member, editorial and public speaker
New York, NY
Mar 2019 - Present
Founded a new progressive student organization with chapters in The New School, City College, and Brooklyn College. Delivered talks at student and activist conferences and speeches at demonstrations that solidified the group�s reputation as a serious political body and a leader on the student front in New York City.
Managed social media accounts and published literature on the organization�s website.
Conceived, prepared, facilitated public events and conducted detailed administrative work for The New School chapter.
Daily Transcription
Freelance transcriber
New York, NY
Aug 2017 - Present
Provided transcriptions, verbatim or clean, for interviews, podcasts, TV and film post-production, while meeting strict 72-hour deadlines.
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Contest Judge
New York, NY
Jan 2019
Selected as a national juror to adjudicate the work of young writers, committed to 10-hour reading periods.
Read and judged over 100 entries of fiction, memoir, poetry, and dramatic script by teenage writers.
Red Room Bar at KGB
MC for The New School After Hours series and Red Room Poetry series
New York, NY
Sep 2016 � Aug 2017
Struck an authentic tone and unique atmosphere through an energetic hosting style that led to outstanding evenings, well remembered by the readers, audience members, and bar staff.
The New School
Graduate Research Assistant for Robert Polito
New York, NY
Sep 2016 � June 2017
Fast and efficient research for nonfiction books on Bob Dylan and Barbara Payton.
Digitized vintage photographs, tintypes, clippings and collected papers.
Prepared poetry syllabus and course materials for a writing workshop.
Extensive use of Library of Congress online archives.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Short story: �The Old Woman and the Axe� Airgonaut, April 2019.
Book review: �Marxist Literary Criticism Today,� Full Stop, August 2019.
Essay: �A Wreath For William H. Gass,� Empty Mirror, December 2018.
�Interview With NBCC Criticism Finalist Peter Orner,� The New School Creative Writing, March 2017.
Memoir: �Beyond Portland,� The Seventh Wave, November 2015.
EDUCATION
The New School for Social Research
MA Liberal Studies
New York, NY
Expected May 2020
Thesis on Marxist literary theory, particularly critical and theoretical methods of Fredric Jameson and Louis Althusser. �Praised by many� on the faculty.
The New School for Public Engagement
MFA Creative Writing
New York, NY
May 2017
Creative thesis: Palm Trees in the Field, a Family Memoir.
Critical thesis: The Language Poets and the Essay.
Elective graduate courses in literature and philosophy, and teaching writing.