Lang professor Julie Napolin was recently awarded the Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Prize by the Joseph Conrad Society of America. Photo by Kasia Broussalian/The New School.
Moments of inspiration often happen to people when they least expect them: relaxing after dinner, or feverishly studying to get into grad school. As it happens, flashes of mental lightning struck novelist Joseph Conrad and newly minted Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts professor Julie Napolin, at just those moments, respectively. And neither life was ever the same.