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, On the Literacy Frontier: Early American Letters at their Limits, is on the significance of literacy to readers and writers in colonial contact situations.

Andrew Newman

Associate Professor. PhD, University of California, Irvine, 2004. Early American Studies, Native American Studies, Theories of Literacy, Language and Memory

1102 Humanities; M/W 2:20-3:40
631.632.7407
andnewman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Courses:

Fall 2011

EGL 204: Literary Analysis and Argumentation
EGL 217: American Literature I

Course Archive

Selected Publications:

Book

On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) (Abstract)

Articles

"Fulfilling the Name: Catherine Tekakwitha and Marguerite Kanenstenhawi (Eunice Williams)" Special Issue of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers on Women in Early America, edited by Tamara Harvey. December 2011.
"Early Americanist Grammatology: Defining Writing and Literacy" in Early American Mediascapes, edited by Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover, University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming.
“Closing the Circle: Mapping a Native Account of European Land Fraud” in Early American Cartographies, ed. Martin Brückner, University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, forthcoming.
“"Light might possibly be requisite": Edgar Huntly, Regional History, and Historicist Criticism,” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 322-357.
Walam Olum: An Indigenous Apocrypha and its Readers,” American Literary History 22, no. 1 (2010): 26-56.
"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).

Editorial

The Worlds of Lion Gardiner: Special Issue of Early American Studies. Edited by Ned Landsman and Andrew Newman. University of Pennsylvania Press, Forthcoming May 2011
"Lion Gardiner's Relation of the Pequot Warres" Early American Studies. Forthcoming May 2011
The Memory Studies Bank (With Daniel Levy)

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.