Steve Newman
snewman@temple.edu
215-204-3181
Steve Newman is an Assistant Professor of
Literature in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature.
He received his M. A. in English Literature from Johns Hopkins
University in 1996 and his Ph. D. from the same institution
in 2001. While at Johns Hopkins, he held an Andrew W. Mellon
Fellowship in the Humanities and was the Founding Director
of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Center, which provided
one-on-one writing consultation to students from across the campus.
His book, Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from The Restoration to the New Criticism was published in 2007 by The University of Pennsylvania Press. It focuses on the motives behind and the effects of the
sudden but sustained interest by elite British writers in
popular songs during the Long Eighteenth Century. The project
seeks to revise historicist accounts of the relationship
between popular and elite culture in the establishment of the
canon and and of the interwining histories of the nation and
lyric poetry. An excerpt from it has recently been published
in Modern Language Quarterly and another in
The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
He is also keenly interested in the teaching
of literature and writing. A hyper-linked dialogue concerning
pedagogy and the university as an institution, “Finding
Romantic Commonplaces,” can be found on the Romantic Praxis
website. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled, Time for the Humanities: Competing Narratives of Value in the 21st Century Academy. It will consider the place of the humanities in relationship to institutions and forces outside of it--our students' pre-professional desires, institutes and think-tanks seeking to influence criteria, international and distance education, and public schools.
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