ANDREW NEWMAN

Professor and Chair
Early American Studies; History of Education; Native American Studies; Media and Memory Studies
Humanities 1102
Andrew.Newman@stonybrook.edu 
See my profile on Humanities Commons.

• Biography

  I've been teaching at Stony Brook since 2005. My first two books are at the intersection of early American, indigenous, and media studies. I'm working on a third book, a cultural history of the teaching and learning of the most frequently-assigned books in American high schools. Relatedly, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, I am co-directing a 2023 Summer Institute for Teachers, "Making the Good Reader and Citizen: A History of Literature Instruction at American Schools."

  I regularly teach courses on all these topics.

  For more information, including links to publications, please visit my profile on Humanities Commons.

• Selected Recent Publications

  “Go Ahead, Assign ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’—in College.” Inside Higher Ed (blog). September 19, 2022.

  “These High School ‘classics’ Have Been Taught for Generations – Could They Be on Their Way Out?” The Conversation (blog). September 16, 2022.

  "Captivity: From Babylon to Indian Country.” In A Companion to American Literature, edited by Theresa Strouth Gaul and Susan Belasco, 89–104. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  “‘Somewhere in This Brain’: Memories of Segregation, Soul Music & ‘Macbeth’ with Al Bell.” Public Books (blog). August 7, 2020.

  “Balcony and Scaffold: Literary Theory and High School English, in the 1960s -.” Journal of the History of Ideas Blog (blog). November 29, 2019.

  “Digital Sources, Analog Citations.” Uncommon Sense - The Blog (blog). February 20, 2019.

  Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities. Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press.

• Selected Prizes and Awards

  Co-Director, 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (and 2021 Summer Seminar) Making the Good Reader and Citizen: The History of Literature Instruction at American Schools.

  Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2019-2020. $55,000

  Faculty Fellowship, Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, Fall 2015

  Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, The University of Southern California