Lance Newman
Associate Professor
English Department
Westminster College
1840 South 1300 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
lnewman (a) westminstercollege (.) edu
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Lance Newman Associate Professor |
| Education | Brown University, Ph.D. in English, 1998 Brown University, M.A. in English, 1993 New College of Florida, B.A. in English, 1986 |
Work in Progress |
Landscapes of Resistance: Radical Pastoral and Romantic Anti-Capitalism. Book manuscript. |
| Major Publications | Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in British and American Romanticism. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard, eds. Praxis Series.
(College Park, Md.: Romantic Circles, 2006).
Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of American, British, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard, eds. (New York: Longman, 2006). Our Common Dwelling: Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Paperback edition forthcoming Spring 2008. Reviewed in American Literature, New England Quarterly, American Historical Review, Thoreau Society Quarterly, Blueline, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. Transatlantic Romanticism. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard, eds. Special issue of Romanticism on the Net 39-39 (May-August 2005). |
| Articles |
"Environmental Thought and Action," The Oxford Handbook to Transcendentalism. Joel Myerson, Laura Dassow Walls, and Sandy Petrulionis, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009. "Free Soil and the Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass' 'The Heroic Slave,'" American Literature, forthcoming March 2009. "Democracy in Action: How California State University Faculty United to Win," Thought and Action, forthcoming Fall 2008. "A History of Transatlantic Romanticism," in Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard, eds. Praxis Series. (College Park, Md.: Romantic Circles, 2006), n.p. "Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes and the Condition of America," Romanticism on the Net 38-39 (May-August 2005). Reprinted as "Nature and Capitalism in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes" in Pierre Lagayette, ed. Nature et progrès: interactions, exclusions, mutations. (Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 2006), 197-217. "Thoreau’s Materialism: From Walden to Wild Fruits." Nineteenth Century Prose 32.2 (Fall 2004), 105-137. Reprinted in Laura Dassow Walls and Sandy Petrulionis, eds. More Day to Dawn: Thoreau's Walden for a New Century. (Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), 100-126. Reprinted in Henry David Thoreau, Walden, William Rossi, ed. Norton Critical Edition (New York: Norton, 2007). "'Patrons of the World': Thoreau as Wordsworthian Poet." Concord Saunterer N.S. 11 (Winter 2003), 155-172. Reprinted as "Henry Thoreau as Wordsworthian Poet." Wordsworth in American Literary Culture. James Butler and Joel Pace, eds. (New York: Palgrave, 2005), 121-143. Reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., Henry David Thoreau. Bloom’s Modern Critical Views (New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2007), 107-126."Thoreau's Natural Community and Utopian Socialism." American Literature 75.3 (September 2003), 515-544. Available via JSTOR and Project Muse. "Marxism and Ecocritism." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 9.2 (Summer 2002): 1-25. "Wordsworth in America and the Nature of Democracy." New England Quarterly 72.4 (December 1999): 517-38. Available via JSTOR."The Politics of Ecocriticism." Review 20 (1998): 59-72. |
| Reviews |
American Transcendentalism: A History by Philip S. Gura and The Transcendentalists by Barbara L. Packer. Thoreau Society Quarterly. Forthcoming Fall 2008. Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America, by Anne Baker and Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America, by Susan Clair Imbarrato. American Literature 79.4 (December 2007). The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs. American Historical Review 112.4 (October 2007). Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860, by Paul Giles. Romanticism on the Net 38-39 (May-August 2005).Emerson, by Lawrence Buell, Understanding Emerson, by Kenneth S. Sacks, and Emerson's Life in Science, by Laura Dassow Walls. American Literature 76.2 (June 2004). Edward Abbey: A Life, by James Cahalan, and Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey, by Jack Loeffler. American Book Review 24 (January/February 2003): 3. Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and the Environment in the U.S. and Beyond, by Lawrence Buell. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 9.1 (Winter 2002): 272-273. Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature, by John Bellamy Foster. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 8.2 (Summer 2001): 281-282. Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature, by John Bellamy Foster. ISLE: International Socialist Review 15 (December 2000), 54. The River Reader, ed. John A. Murray. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 7.1 (Winter 2000) 234-35. The Greening of Marxism, ed. Ted Benton. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 5.2 (Summer 1998), 139-40. Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought, by Verena Andermatt Conley. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 5.2 (Summer 1998), 169. |
| Other Scholarly Publications | "Edward Abbey," "Brook Farm," "Frederick
Douglass," Ralph Waldo Emerson," "Fruitlands," "Harriet Jacobs," and "Henry
David Thoreau." The Encyclopedia of American Counterculture, Karen
Karbiener, ed. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2008).
"Nature." American History through Literature, 1820-1870, Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer, eds. (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006): 788-795. "Emily Dickinson’s ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death." Online Audio Lecture. My Literature Lab. Longman, 2005. "Emerson's Nature, Brownson's Church of the Future, and Environmental Idealism," Proceedings of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations, 2000-2003, CD-ROM (Winter 2003): 1473-1482. "Hawthorne's Robin Molineux, Nature, and the Jacksonian Mob," Proceedings of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations, 2000-2003, CD-ROM (Winter 2003): 1483-1494. |
| Poems | 3by3by3. Ongoing collaborative poetry experiment. Come Kanab. Limited edition chapbook. Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv, 2007. "Cerro de las Posas," "Subject: Don’t Call My Cell," and "Dream of Frost in Boston, 1963," Zyzzyva, forthcoming. "Four Corners," "Valley of the Moon," "Bird of Paradise," Perigee, forthcoming. "Commencement," nthposition, forthcoming. "The Good Doctor" and "Thanks," unsplendid (Spring 2007). "Variations on My Life," Stride (Spring 2007). "Joe Hill’s Ghost in Mexican Hat," Dusie 5 (Spring 2007). "Dream of the Garden," identity theory (Winter 2006-2007). "Fort Defiance," Blue Collar Review (Autumn 2006): 26 "Dream of Flight," "Re: What’s New at Home," and "Dream of Murder," nthposition (July 2006). "Walking North," Fringe 3 (July 2006). "Whale," "Glamis," "Chocolate Mountains," and "Winslow," Pemmican (Summer 2006). "Rio Puerco," Blue Collar Review (Summer 2006): 5. "Convenience," "Temple Square," "Fuel," and "Corrales Rancho Homes," Streetnotes, Winter 2006. "Anza Borrego" in Sunshine/Noir, Jim Miller, ed. (San Diego: City Works Press, 2005). "Farming Dry," Perigee 2.1 (Summer 2004). "After the Southland Fires," PoetryNet, 14 Feb. 2004, "After Michael Came Back," Poets Against the War, 17 February 2003. "Up Past Hanksville" and "Down by Socorro," Beloit Poetry Journal 52.2 (Winter 2001-2002), 14-15. "Pool," in American Sports Poems, May Swenson and R. R. Knudsen, eds. New York: Orchard, 1989. "Open Letter from Green Mountain," New CollAge Magazine 19.3 (Spring 1988), 3-4. "Release Pinion. Exhaust Flesh. Pay." New CollAge Magazine 19.2 (Winter 1988), 8-9. "In the Morning" and "In the Afternoon," New CollAge Magazine (Winter 1987), 15-16. "Logics of Day" and "Logics of Night," New CollAge Magazine 17.2 (Winter 1986), 15-16. |
| Conferences | "Environmentalism and Literary History: The Long Revolution," Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 2008. "Global Warming, Globalization, and Environmental Literary History," Division on Literature and Science, Modern Language Association, December 2008. "Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and the Containment of Radical Pastoral," Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2006. "Environmental Liberalism, Narratives of Depletion, and George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature," Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2006. "The Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave," American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2006. "The Grand Canyon River Trip as Environmental Text," Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Oregon State University, June 2005. "Teaching Thoreau’s Natural History Essays," Thoreau Society Session, American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2004. "Thoreau's Walden and Orestes Brownson's New Views," Thoreau Society, Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, December 2004. "Emerson's Poet, Natural Language, and Authority," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Colorado, September 2004."Thoreau's Materialism: From Walden to Wild Fruits," Thoreau Society, American Literature Association, San Francisco State University, May 2004. "'Patron of the World': Thoreau as Wordsworthian Poet," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Fordham University, August 2003."Edward Abbey and the Politics of Nature Writing," Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Boston University, June 2003. "Shooting the Rapids with Margaret Fuller in 1843." Center for Western US and Asia/Pacific Studies, University of Paris IV - Sorbonne, November 2002."Edward Abbey and the Politics of Nature Writing." Western Literature Association, Arizona State University, October 2002. "Major Molineux and the Jacksonian Mob," Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, University of New Mexico, February 2002. "Marxism and Ecocriticism," Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Northern Arizona University, June 2001. "Emerson's Nature, Brownson's Church of the Future, and Environmental Idealism," Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, University of New Mexico, March 2001. "Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes and Thomas Carlyle's Condition-of-England Question," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Arizona State University, September 2000. "The Landscape of Democracy in Summer on the Lakes," Margaret Fuller Society, American Literature Association, California State University Long Beach, May 2000. "The Landscape of Democracy in Summer on the Lakes," Northeast Modern Language Association, SUNY Buffalo, April 2000. "Wordsworth's Sentimental Republic and American Whiggery," Keats-Shelley Society Session, Modern Language Association, December 1998. "Thoreau's Bean Field and Utopian Socialism," American Conference on Romanticism, University of Georgia, October 1998. "Towards a Materialist Ecocriticism," Princeton University Environmental History Reading Group, Princeton University, February 1998. "Wordsworth in America and the Pedagogy of Nature," American Conference on Romanticism, University of California Santa Barbara, January 1998. "Thoreau, Association, and Farm Work in the Forties," Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY Cortland, October 1997. "John Clare's Red-Green Polemics and Ecocentric Consciousness," National Graduate Student Romanticism Conference, University of Washington, April 1997. "Romanticism and Green Criticism," National Graduate Student Romanticism Conference, Emory University, April 1996. |
| Teaching Experience | Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT Associate Professor, September 2008-present
California State University, San Marcos, CA
State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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| Master’s Theses Sponsored |
Gunn, Helen. I Can Love Both Fair and Brown: Representations of Women in Hawthorne's Letters and Fiction. Fall 2006. Ames, Chris. Ecofeminist Rhetorics of the Goddess in Virginia Woolf, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Mary Daly. Spring 2006 Tammone, Mollie. In a Cavern. Fiction/Memoir. Spring 2006. Cirka, Kim. Callaway. Fiction. Spring 2006. Hegarty, George. Writing Bridges: Ecocomposition and the Liberation of Student Voice. Spring 2006. Arnold, J. Diamond. Tear of Rage. Screenplay. Fall 2005. Cox, Kevin. Deathride to Dickville. Novel. Fall 2005. Ahmann, Nancy. Outside and Looking In. Memoir. Spring 2005. Caslavka, Erin. A Hymn to God: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell. Screenplay. Spring 2005. Myers, Sherre. Green Ink Wings: Memories of Bobby Landes. Narrative. Spring 2005. Pugh, Zak. The Zephyr Chronicles. Multi-generic narrative. Spring 2005. Saunders, Suzanne. John Steinbeck and American Modernism. Spring 2005. Schmidt, Robert. Adam Smith and Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets: The Nature of Ambition and Socio-Economic Mobility. Spring 2005. Smedley, Greg. A Life Close to the Surface. Novel. Spring 2005. Vernon, J. T. Serephemera. Graphic novel script. Spring 2005. Newell, James. Soul of Water. Creative Non-Fiction. Spring 2004. Mason, Ben. Sunrise on Moonville. Novel. Fall 2003. Pickett, Julie. The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe: Audience, Emotional Manipulation, and Society. Spring 2003. |
| Honors and Awards | "Farmers, Mechanics, and Workingmen: Labor, Liberty, and Romantic Anti-Capitalism," College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Grant, CSUSM, $2492.00 Fall 2006. "Anthology of American Literature," Sabbatical Leave, CSUSM, Fall 2006. "The Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave," $500.00, Faculty Center Professional Development Grant, CSUSM, Spring 2006. Harry E. Brakebill Distinguished Professor Award, Nominee, Fall 2005. "Longman Anthology of American Literature," $1000.00, Grant Proposal Seed Money Grant, COAS, CSUSM, Fall 2005. "Edward Abbey and the Great American Desert," $5000.00, LEF Foundation, Moving Image Fund Grant, Spring 2005. "Our Common Dwelling," $4569.00, University Professional Development Grant, CSUSM, Spring 2005. "Thoreau’s Walden and Orestes Brownson’s New Views," $400.00, Faculty Center Professional Development Grant, CSUSM, Fall 2004. "Natural Words," $1000.00, Grant Proposal Seed Money Grant, COAS, CSUSM, Fall 2003. "Transatlantic Romanticism," $4962.00, University Professional Development Grant, CSUSM, Fall 2003. "Transatlantic Romanticism," $1700.00, Faculty Development Grant, COAS, CSUSM, Fall 2003. "Shooting the Rapids with Margaret Fuller in 1843," $426.00, Faculty Center Professional Development Grant, CSUSM, Fall 2002. "Edward Abbey and the Great American Desert," $1000.00, Grant Proposal Seed Money Grant, COAS, CSUSM, Fall 2002. Brown University, Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 1998. Brown University, Untermeyer Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 1996. Brown University, Fellowship, 1991-92. New College, Academic Scholarship, 1982-86. |
| Professional Service | Editorial Board Member, ISLE:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and
the Environment, 2005-present.
Editorial Board Member, San Diego City Works Press, 2003-present. Occasional External Reviewer, PMLA and SUNY Press. Organizer, Grand Canyon River Trip with Craig Childs, author of The Secret Knowledge of Water, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, August 2005. Panel Organizer and Chair, "Transatlantic Authority," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Colorado, September 2004. Organizer, Grand Canyon River Trip with Ann Zwinger, author of DownCanyon, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, August 2004.Panel Series Organizer and Respondent, "Environment and Class," Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Boston University, June 2003. Panel Series Organizer and Respondent, "Transatlantic Romanticism," American Comparative Literature Association, California State University, San Marcos, April 2003.Panel Series Organizer and Respondent, "Cultures of Nature: Supernatural, Antinatural, Postnatural," Society for Literature and Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 2000. |
| University Service | Program Coordinator, Special Major, COAS, CSUSM, 2004-present |
| Departmental Service | U.S. Literature Task Force, LTWR, CSUSM, 2007-present |
| Editorial Positions | Copper Beech Press, Providence, RI, Assistant Editor, 1994-95 Orchard Books, New York, NY, Assistant Editor, 1987-89 New Collage Magazine, Sarasota, FL, Assistant Editor, 1985-1987 |
| Professional Memberships | Modern Language Association |