English Department Faculty

Andrew Newman did his graduate work at the University of Chicago (M.A. in Comparative Literature) and at the University of California, Irvine, where he earned a PhD in English with a specialization in early American literature. Before coming to Stony Brook in Fall 2005, he held a 1-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. His current book project, The Indian Walk and the Paper Trail, is a study of a series of controversies in the shared histories of Native Americans and settlers in the colonial mid-Atlantic region.

Andrew Newman

Assistant Professor. PhD, University of California, Irvine, 2004. Early American Studies, Theories of Literacy and Language, History of Literary Pedagogy

1102 Humanities; MW 2:00-3:30
631.632.7407
andnewman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Courses:

Fall 2009

Early American Literature (EGL 217)
Literary Studies and Civic Education (EGL 585)

Selected Publications:

Articles

"Early Americanist Grammatology: Defining Writing and Literacy" in Early American Mediascapes, edited by Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover, University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming.
"'Light Might Possibly be Requisite': Edgar Huntly, Regional History, and Historicist Criticism," Early American Studies, Forthcoming 2010.
"The Walam Olum and Indigenous Apocrypha," American Literary History, Forthcoming 2010.
"Sublime Translation in the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Walter Scott," Nineteenth-Century Literature 59:1 (June 2004) 1-26. Reprint in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism 203, ed. Kathy Darrow, Gale, 2008.
"Captive on the Literacy Frontier: Mary Rowlandson, James Smith, Charles Johnston," Early American Literature 38:1 (Spring 2003) 31-65).

Reviews and Other Essays:

Review of Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism by Andy Doolen and The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America by Ed White. Early American Literature 41: 3 (2006) 592-600
Review of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons by Kristina Bross. William and Mary Quarterly 61:4 (2004) 747-750.
“William Byrd's Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina." Proceedings of the Early Anglo/Ibero Americanist Summit, 2002.
“Literacy Then and Now: The New England Primer in a 21st Century Elementary Classroom.” Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 2:3 April 1, 2002. .