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Lance NewmanDepartment of EnglishWestminster College1840 South 1300 EastSalt Lake City, UT 84105801-832-2399lnewman@westminstercollege.eduEducationBrown University, Ph.D. in English, 1998Brown University, M.A. in English, 1993New College of Florida, B.A. in English, 1986Administrative AppointmentsAssociate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Westminster College, 2012-presentDirector, Customized Major Program, Westminster College, 2010-presentDirector, Special Major Program, COAS, CSUSM, 2004-2008Academic AppointmentsBooksProfessor of English and Environmental Studies, Westminster College, 2011-presentAssociate Professor of English and Environmental Studies, Westminster College, 2008-2011Associate Professor of Literature and Writing Studies, California State San Marcos, 2005-2008Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing Studies, California State San Marcos, 2002-2005Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy, State University of West Georgia, 2000-2002Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999-2000Instructor, Brown University, 1992-1996American Literature. 2 nd edition. William Cain, Alice McDermott, Lance Newman, and HilaryWyss, eds. (New York: Penguin, 2013).The Grand Canyon Reader (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011). Reviewed inISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, The Journal ofEcocriticism, Publisher’s Weekly, National Parks Traveler, Boatman’s Quarterly Review,Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News, Kansas City Star, and TheMontreal Gazette. Interviewed for Saturday Extra on Australian BroadcastingCorporation’s Radio National.Our Common Dwelling: Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature. (NewYork: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Paperback edition, 2008. Reviewed in AmericanLiterature, New England Quarterly, American Historical Review, Thoreau SocietyQuarterly, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.

Newman 2Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature,1767-1867. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard, eds. (New York:Longman, 2006).Edited CollectionsSullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism. Lance Newman, JoelPace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard, eds. Praxis Series. (College Park, MD: RomanticCircles, 2006). Web.Transatlantic Romanticism. Joel Pace, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, and Lance Newman, eds.Special double issue of Romanticism on the Net 38-39 (May-August 2005). Web.Film and WebCanyonlands: Edward Abbey and the Great American Desert. Dir. Roderick Coover. 2011.Co-produced and co-wrote 50-minute documentary film accompanied by online interactivecinemascape. Co-hosted preview screenings of film at University of Utah EnvironmentalHumanities Center, Westminster College Environmental Center, University of IdahoPresident’s Sustainability Symposium, Western Literature Association Conference(Prescott, AZ), Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference(Bloomington, IN), SW/TX American Culture/Popular Culture Association Conference,(Albuquerque, NM).Peer-Reviewed Articles“Free Soil and the Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass’s ‘The Heroic Slave,’” AmericanLiterature 81.1 (March 2009): 127-152. Print.“How California State University Faculty United to Win,” Thought and Action (Fall 2008): 35-46. Print.“Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes and the Condition of America," Romanticism on theNet 38-39 (May-August 2005). Web.Reprinted as “Nature and Capitalism in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes” inNature et progrès: interactions, exclusions, mutations. Pierre Lagayette, ed.(Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 2006), 197-217. Print.“Thoreau’s Materialism: From Walden to Wild Fruits.” Nineteenth Century Prose 32.2 (Fall2004), 105-137. Print.Reprinted in More Day to Dawn: Thoreau's Walden for a New Century. LauraDassow Walls and Sandy Petrulionis, eds. (Boston: University of MassachusettsPress, 2007), 100-126. Print.Reprinted in Henry David Thoreau, Walden. William Rossi, ed. Norton CriticalEdition (New York: Norton, 2007). Print.“‘Patron of the World’: Henry Thoreau as Wordsworthian Poet.” The Concord Saunterer NewSeries 11 (Winter 2003), 155-172. Print.Reprinted as “Henry Thoreau as Wordsworthian Poet” in Wordsworth in AmericanLiterary Culture. James Butler and Joel Pace, eds. (New York: Palgrave, 2005),121-143. Print.

Newman 3Reprinted in Henry David Thoreau. Harold Bloom, ed. Bloom’s Modern CriticalViews (New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2007), 107-126. Print.“Thoreau’s Natural Community and Utopian Socialism.” American Literature 75.3 (September2003), 515-544. Print.“Marxism and Ecocriticism.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and theEnvironment 9.2 (Summer 2002): 1-25. Print.“Wordsworth in America and the Nature of Democracy.” New England Quarterly 72.4(December 1999): 517-38. Print.Editor-Reviewed Articles and Chapters“Race and Nature in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: A Conversation,” with JamesFinley. Journal of Ecocriticism 5.2 (July 2013): n.p. Web.“Cosmopolitics and the Radical Pastoral: A Conversation with Lawrence Buell, Hsuan Hsu,Anthony Lioi, and Paul Outka,” with Laura Walls. Journal of Ecocriticism 3.2 (July 2011):n.p. Web.“Desert Interventions,” with Roderick Coover, Larry McCaffery, and Hikmet Loe.Accompanied by edited transcripts of interviews with Ken Sleight, Jack Loeffler, and JimStiles. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 10.3 (2010): n.p. Web.“A Dialogue about the Desert,” with Roderick Coover, Larry McCaffery, and Hikmet Loe.Electronic Book Review (April 2010): n.p. Web.“Environmental Thought and Action” in The Oxford Handbook to Transcendentalism. JoelMyerson, Laura Dassow Walls, and Sandy Petrulionis, eds. (New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 2010): 276-292. Print.“Global Warming, Globalization, and Environmental Literary History,” Electronic BookReview (May 2009): n.p. Web.“A History of Transatlantic Romanticism” in Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays inTransatlantic Romanticism. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard, eds.Praxis Series. (College Park, Md.: Romantic Circles, 2006). Web.“Nature” in American History through Literature, 1820-1870. Janet Gabler-Hover and RobertSattelmeyer, eds. (Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006): 788-795. Print.“The Politics of Ecocriticism.” Review 20 (1998): 59-72. Print.Book ReviewsArcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition, by Aaron Sachs. NewEngland Quarterly 86.2 (June 2013): 343-345. Print.The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet, by John Bellamy Foster.International Socialist Review 69 (January/February 2010): 56. Print.American Transcendentalism: A History, by Philip Gura and The Transcendentalists, byBarbara Packer. Thoreau Society Bulletin 264 (Fall 2008): 2-4. Print.Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America, by AnneBaker, and Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America, by Susan ClairImbarrato. American Literature 79.4 (December 2007): 821-823. Print.

Newman 4The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of AmericanEnvironmentalism, by Aaron Sachs. American Historical Review 112.4 (October 2007):1141-1143. Print.Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860, by Paul Giles. Romanticism on the Net 38-39 (May-August 2005). Web.Emerson, by Lawrence Buell, Understanding Emerson, by Kenneth S. Sacks, and Emerson’sLife in Science, by Laura Dassow Walls. American Literature 76.2 (June 2004): 391-393.Print.Edward Abbey: A Life, by James Cahalan and Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey, byJack Loeffler. American Book Review 24 (January/February 2003): 3. Print.Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. andBeyond, by Lawrence Buell. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and theEnvironment 9.1 (Winter 2002): 272-273. Print.Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature, by John Bellamy Foster. ISLE: InterdisciplinaryStudies in Literature and the Environment 8.2 (Summer 2001): 281-282. Print.Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature, by John Bellamy Foster. International SocialistReview 15 (December 2000), 54. Print.The River Reader, John A. Murray, ed. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and theEnvironment 7.1 (Winter 2000): 234-35. Print.The Greening of Marxism, Ted Benton, ed. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature andthe Environment 5.2 (Summer 1998): 139-40. Print.Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought, by Verena Andermatt Conley.ISLE 5.2 (Summer 1998): 169. Print.Other Publications“Edward Abbey,” “Brook Farm,” “Frederick Douglass,” “Ralph Waldo Emerson,”“Fruitlands,” “Harriet Jacobs,” and “Henry David Thoreau” in American Countercultures:An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S.History. Gina Misiroglu, ed. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2008). Print.“Emily Dickinson’s ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” Online Audio Lecture. MyLiterature Lab. Longman, 2005. Web.“Emerson's Nature, Brownson's Church of the Future, and Environmental Idealism” and“Hawthorne’s Robin Molineux, Nature, and the Jacksonian Mob.” Proceedings of theSouthwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations, 2000-2003, (Winter 2003):1473-1494. CD-ROM.Conference Presentations“Green Jackets, Wild Fruits, and ‘Radical Slang’: John Clare and Henry Thoreau,” ThoreauSociety Annual Gathering, in absentia, July 2013.“‘The Deep Brown Wilderness: William Apess, Race and Nature,” Association for the Studyof Literature and the Environment, University of Kansas, June 2013.“The Matter of the Classed Body: Marxism and the New Materialism,” Association for theStudy of Literature and the Environment, University of Kansas, June 2013.

Newman 5“Getting into Grand Canyon through Stories,” Invited Plenary Address, Utah Society forEnvironmental Education, Ogden, UT, October 2012.“Transcendental Historicism and Race in Lydia Maria Child’s The First Settlers of NewEngland,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 2012.“Cosmopolitics and the Radical Pastoral,” Association for the Study of Literature and theEnvironment, University of Illinois, June 2011.“Lydia Maria Child’s Environmental Feminism,” American Literature Association, SanFrancisco, May 2010.“Lydia Maria Child, Public Women, and Natural Cities,” Association for the Study ofLiterature and the Environment, University of Victoria, June 2009.“How California State University Faculty United to Win,” National Education AssociationHigher Education Conference, Portland, OR, March 2009.“Global Warming, Globalization, and Environmental Literary History,” Division on Literatureand Science Session, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 2008.“The Long Revolution,” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 2008.“Marxism and the Environment,” Socialism Conference, Center for Economic Research andSocial Change, Chicago, IL, June 2008.“Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and the Containmentof Radical Pastoral,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Session, Modern LanguageAssociation, Philadelphia, PA, December 2006.“Environmental Liberalism, Narratives of Depletion, and George Perkins Marsh’s Man andNature,” Division on Literature and Science Session, Modern Language Association,Philadelphia, PA, December 2006.“The Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave,” American LiteratureAssociation, San Francisco, CA, May 2006.“Socialism and the Environment,” Socialism Conference, Center for Economic Research andSocial Change, Chicago, IL, July 2005.“The Grand Canyon River Trip as Environmental Text,” Association for the Study ofLiterature and the Environment, Oregon State University, June 2005.“Teaching Thoreau’s Natural History Essays,” Thoreau Society Session, American LiteratureAssociation, Boston, MA, May 2005.“Thoreau’s Walden and Orestes Brownson’s New Views,” Thoreau Society Session, ModernLanguage Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2004.“Emerson’s Poet, Natural Language, and Authority,” North American Society for the Study ofRomanticism, University of Colorado, September 2004.“Are We Headed for Environmental Disaster?” Socialism Conference, Center for EconomicResearch and Social Change, Chicago, IL, June 2004.“Thoreau’s Materialism: From Walden to Wild Fruits,” Thoreau Society Session, AmericanLiterature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.“‘Patron of the World’: Thoreau as Wordsworthian Poet,” North American Society for theStudy of Romanticism, Fordham University, August 2003.“Edward Abbey and the Politics of Nature Writing,” Association for the Study of Literatureand the Environment, Boston University, June 2003.“Shooting the Rapids with Margaret Fuller in 1843,” Center for Western US and Asia/PacificStudies, University of Paris IV – Sorbonne, November 2002.

Newman 6“Edward Abbey and the Politics of Nature Writing,” Western Literature Association, ArizonaState University, October 2002.“Major Molineux and the Jacksonian Mob,” SW/Texas Popular Culture Association andAmerican 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," SW/TexasPopular Culture Association and American Culture Association, University of NewMexico, March 2001.“Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes and Thomas Carlyle’s Condition-of-EnglandQuestion,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Arizona StateUniversity, September 2000.“The Landscape of Democracy in Summer on the Lakes,” Margaret Fuller Society, AmericanLiterature Association, California State University Long Beach, May 2000“The Feminine Republic in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes,” Northeast ModernLanguage Association, SUNY Buffalo, April 2000.“Wordsworth’s Sentimental Republic and American Whiggery,” Keats-Shelley SocietySession, 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,” Environmental History Reading Group, PrincetonUniversity, February 1998.“Wordsworth in America and the Pedagogy of Nature,” American Conference onRomanticism, University of California at Santa Barbara, January 1998.“Thoreau, Association, and Farm Work in the Forties,” Central New York Conference onLanguage and Literature, SUNY Cortland, October 1997.“John Clare’s Red-Green Polemics,” National Graduate Student Romanticism Conference,University of Washington, April 1997.“Romanticism and Green Criticism,” National Graduate Student Romanticism Conference,Emory University, April 1996.Poetry Chapbooks3by3by3. Chicago: Beard of Bees Press, 2010.Come Kanab. Geneva: Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv, 2007.Poems in Magazines“Ribonucleic Tityrus in Mali,” otoliths 28 (Southern Summer 2013). Web.“PS3 Entices Elizabeth,” “Presidential Jobs Mirage,” “Draft Game Rules,” “OverhaulSmuggled Text,” “Drink Sun, Live,” BlazeVox (Spring 2010). Web.“Bleak Greenbelt Security" and "NASDAQ Galaxies Captured," Sugar House Review 2(Summer 2010). Print.“Standard California Climate,” Moria 12 (Winter 2010). Web.

Newman 7“H5N1 Global Repair,” “Trans-Fats Ambush Party,” “Magnetic Oaxacan Storm,” “TitillatingSlum Remains,” “Government Control Fire,” and “Centrifuges Reboot Sperm.” West WindReview (2010): 58-63. Print.“Lucky World Chief,” “Rev. Harvest ‘Sick’”, “Leadership, The Life,” “Medieval MeteorTherapy” and “Score Go-Ahead Needs,” No Tell Motel (February 2010). Web.“Lucky Blue Majority,” “Ultraviolet World Newborn,” and “Klan-Free Vista,” otoliths 15(November 2009). Web.“Fire Side,” Breadbox Parsons 3 (April 2009). Web and Print.“No Thanks,” 1913: A Journal of Forms 3 (2009): 250. Print.“Baghdad Swing” and “Subject: Horizon,” Breadbox Parsons 2 (November 2008). Web and“The Condition of Compassion: A Conversation with Lance Newman” by Jensea Storie.Includes “Four Corners,” “Valley of the Moon,” and “Bird of Paradise,” Perigee 19(January 2008). Web.“Cerro de las Posas,” “Subject: Don’t Call My Cell,” and “Dream of Frost in Boston, 1963,”Zyzzyva 81 (Winter 2007): 137-141. Print.“Commencement,” nthposition (November 2007). Web.“The Good Doctor” and “Thanks,” unsplendid (Spring 2007). Web.“Variations on My Life,” Stride (Spring 2007). Web.“Joe Hill’s Ghost in Mexican Hat,” Dusie 5 (Spring 2007). Web.“Dream of the Garden,” identity theory (Winter 2006-2007). Web.“Fort Defiance,” Blue Collar Review (Autumn 2006): 26. Print.“Dream of Flight,” “Re: What’s New at Home,” and “Dream of Murder,” nthposition (July2006). “Walking North,” Fringe 3 (July 2006). Web.“Whale,” “Glamis,” “Chocolate Mountains,” and “Winslow,” Pemmican (Summer 2006).“Rio Puerco,” Blue Collar Review (Summer 2006): 5. Print.“Convenience,” “Temple Square,” “Fuel,” and “Corrales Rancho Homes,” XCP: Streetnotes(Winter 2006). Web.“Anza Borrego” in Sunshine/Noir. Ed. Jim Miller. San Diego: City Works Press, 2005.“Farming Dry,” Perigee 2.1 (Summer 2004). Web.“After the Southland Fires,” Negative Images (Feb. 14, 2004). Web.“After Michael Came Back,” Poets Against the War (Feb. 17, 2003). Web.“Up Past Hanksville” and “Down by Socorro,” Beloit Poetry Journal 52.2 (Winter 2001-02):14-15. Print.“Pool,” in American Sports Poems. May Swenson and R. R. Knudsen, eds.. New York:Orchard Books, 1989. Print.“Open Letter from Green Mountain,” New Collage Magazine 19.3 (Spring 1988): 3-4. Print.“Release Pinion. Exhaust Flesh. Pay.” New Collage Magazine 19.2 (Winter 1988): 8-9. Print.“In the Morning” and “In the Afternoon,” New Collage Magazine 18.2 (Winter 1987): 15-16.Print.“Logics of Day” and “Logics of Night,” New Collage Magazine 17.2 (Winter 1986): 15-16.Print.Poetry Readings100K Poets for Change, Salt Lake City, UT, Oct. 2012City Art Series, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 2011

Newman 8100K Poets for Change, Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 2011City Art Series, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 2008Heavy Word, San Marcos, CA, Dec. 2004Artistic Rights Poetry Series, San Marcos, CA, Nov. 2004Teaching ExperienceWestminster CollegeENGL 405 - Creative Writing Senior Thesis SeminarENGL 357 - Environmental LiteratureENGL 356C - Transatlantic RomanticismENGL 351 - U.S. Literature before 1865ENGL 326/327 - College Publications: EllipsisENGL 311 - Introduction to Literary StudiesENGL 230 - Introduction to Creative WritingENGL 220 - Introduction to LiteratureENGL 110 - Composition and ResearchENVI 101 - Introduction to Environmental StudiesHON 202 - Humanities IICalifornia State University San MarcosLTWR 545 - Advanced Creative Writing (grad)LTWR 503 - Transatlantic Romanticism (grad)LTWR 503 - Marxism and Literature (grad)LTWR 475 - The Writing Process (grad/undergrad)LTWR 431 - American Environmental Literature (grad/undergrad)LTWR 400N - Henry Thoreau and American Romanticism (grad/undergrad)LTWR 325 - Creative Writing WorkshopLTWR 309A - Early American LiteratureLTWR 303C - California StoriesLTWR 105 - Texts that Changed the WorldGEH 102 - The Search for Self-Definition 2GEH 101 - The Search for Self Definition 1State University of West Georgia6110 - Henry Thoreau and His Contemporaries (grad)4/5140 - American Romanticism (grad/undergrad)4/5125 - Colonial and Early American Literature (grad/undergrad)4/5106 - Studies in Genre, Poetry (grad/undergrad)2130 - American Literature Survey2100 - Transatlantic Romanticism1102 - English Composition 21101 - English Composition 1Georgia Institute of Technology1102 - English Composition 2

Newman 91101 - English Composition 1Brown University0033 - Survey of American Literature after 18650032 - Survey of American Literature to 18650020 - Topics in Literature, American Literary Nationalism0020 - Topics in Literature, Landscape and Nationalism0014 - Writing and Persuasion, Environmental Journalism0005 - Writing the Personal Essay, The Writer and PlaceM.A. and Ph.D. Theses DirectedReeder, Ben. The Colorado River Beyond Resource: Habitat, Home and RestorationConnecting Generations Moving Downstream. Spring 2012. University of Utah.Gunn, Helen. I Can Love Both Fair and Brown: Representations of Women in Hawthorne'sLetters and Fiction. Fall 2006Ames, Chris. Ecofeminist Rhetorics of the Goddess in Virginia Woolf, Leslie Marmon Silko,and Mary Daly. Spring 2006Tammone, Mollie. In a Cavern. Fiction/Memoir. Spring 2006Cirka, Kim. Callaway. Fiction. Spring 2006Hegarty, George. Writing Bridges: Ecocomposition and the Liberation of Student Voice.Spring 2006Arnold, J. Diamond. Tear of Rage. Screenplay. Fall 2005Cox, Kevin. Deathride to Dickville. Fiction. Fall 2005Ahmann, Nancy. Outside and Looking In. Memoir. Spring 2005Caslavka, Erin. A Hymn to God: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell. Screenplay. Spring 2005Myers, Sherre. Green Ink Wings: Memories of Bobby Landes. Poetry/Fiction. Spring 2005Pugh, Zak. The Zephyr Chronicles. Poetry/Fiction. Spring 2005Saunders, Suzanne. John Steinbeck and American Modernism. Spring 2005Schmidt, Robert. Adam Smith and Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets: TheNature of Ambition and Socio-Economic Mobility. Spring 2005Smedley, Greg. A Life Close to the Surface. Fiction. Spring 2005Vernon, J. T. Serephemera. Graphic novel script. Spring 2005Newell, James. Soul of Water. Memoir. Spring 2004Mason, Ben. Sunrise on Moonville. Fiction. Fall 2003Pickett, Julie. The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe: Audience, Emotional Manipulation, andSociety. Spring 2003AwardsManford A. and June Shaw Faculty Publication Prize, Westminster College, 2012NEA Excellence in the Academy Award for Democracy in Higher Education, 2008Nominee, President’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activity, 2007Nominee, Harry E. Brakebill Distinguished Professor Award, 2005Brown University, Dissertation Fellowship, 1998Brown University, Untermeyer Dissertation Fellowship, 1996

Newman 10Brown University, Fellowship, 1991-92New College, Academic Scholarship, 1982-86Grants“Landscapes of Resistance,” Gore Individual Research Grant, Summer 2012“Landscapes of Resistance,” Gore Course Release Development Grant, Spring 2011“The Grand Canyon Reader,” $3000, Gore Individual Research Grant, Westminster College,Summer 2010“Ellipsis Editorial Team Travel to Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference,”$4000, Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research Travel Grant, Westminster College, Fall2009“Farmers, Mechanics, and Workingmen: Labor, Liberty, and Romantic Anti-Capitalism,”$2492, COAS Faculty Development Grant, CSUSM, Fall 2006“Longman Anthology of American Literature,” Sabbatical Leave, CSUSM, Fall 2006“The Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave,” $500, Faculty CenterProfessional Development Grant, CSUSM, Spring 2006“Longman Anthology of American Literature,” $1000, Grant Proposal Seed Money Grant,COAS, CSUSM, Fall 2005“Edward Abbey and the Great American Desert,” $5000, LEF Foundation, Moving ImageFund Grant, Spring 2005“Our Common Dwelling,” $4569, University Professional Development Grant, CSUSM,Spring 2005“Thoreau’s Walden and Orestes Brownson’s New Views,” $400, Faculty Center ProfessionalDevelopment Grant, CSUSM, Fall 2004“Natural Words,” $1000, Grant Proposal Seed Money Grant, COAS, CSUSM, Fall 2003“Transatlantic Romanticism,” $4962, University Professional Development Grant, CSUSM,Fall 2003“Transatlantic Romanticism,” $1700, Faculty Development Grant, COAS, CSUSM, Fall 2003“Shooting the Rapids with Margaret Fuller in 1843,” $426, Faculty Center ProfessionalDevelopment Grant, CSUSM, Fall 2002“Edward Abbey and the Great American Desert,” $1000, Grant Proposal Seed Money Grant,COAS, CSUSM, Fall 2002Professional DevelopmentConference Participant, New American Colleges and Universities Summer Institute, Universityof Scranton, June 2013.Conference Participant, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Annual Meeting, Seattle,WA, October 2012.Professional ServiceEditorial Board Member, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment,2005-present.

Newman 11Manuscript Reviewer, ESQ, ISLE, J19, Partial Answers, PMLA, Utopian Studies, University ofCalifornia Press, SUNY Press, Routledge, Bedford/St. Martin’s, Pearson, PalgraveMacmillan.Grant Proposal Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.Organizer, Grand Canyon River Trip with Rebecca Solnit, author of Wanderlust, Associationfor the Study of Literature and the Environment, June 2009.Organizer, Grand Canyon River Trip with Craig Childs, author of The Secret Knowledge ofWater, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, August 2005.Organizer, Grand Canyon River Trip with Ann Zwinger, author of DownCanyon, Associationfor the Study of Literature and the Environment, August 2004.Panel Respondent, “Transcendental Materialisms,” Thoreau Society Panel, Modern LanguageAssociation, Chicago, January 2013.Panel Organizer, “Post-Natural Ecologies,” Association for the Study of Literature and theEnvironment, University of Victoria, June 2009.Panel Organizer, “Transatlantic Authority,” North American Society for the Study ofRomanticism, University of Colorado, September 2004.Panel Series Organizer and Respondent, “Environment and Class,” Association for the Studyof Literature and the Environment, Boston University, June 2003.Panel Series Organizer and Respondent, “Transatlantic Romanticism,” American ComparativeLiterature Association, California State University, San Marcos, April 2003.Panel Respondent, “Practices of Poetry,” American Literature Section Panel, ModernLanguage Association, New York City, December 2002.Panel Series Organizer and Respondent, “Cultures of Nature: Supernatural, Antinatural,Postnatural,” Society for Literature and Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, October2000.Institutional ServiceFaculty Liaison to Trustees’ Resource Planning and Management Committee, 2012-presentA&S Promotion Standards Review Task Force, 2012-presentNAC&U Teagle Grant Working Group, Westminster College, 2011-presentPeer Review Committee for Nina Vought, Westminster College, 2011-2012Promotions Committee, School of Arts and Sciences, Westminster College, 2011-2012Presidential Search Committee, Westminster College, 2011-2012Chair of Faculty Affairs Committee, Westminster College, 2010-2012President’s udget Advisory Council, Westminster College, 2010-2012Peer Review Committee for Jenn Ritter, Westminster College, 2010-2011Faculty Workload Advisory Task Force, Westminster College, 2009-2010Faculty Affairs Committee, Westminster College, 2009-2010Vice President, CSUSM Chapter, California Faculty Association, 2006-2008Secretary, CSUSM Chapter, California Faculty Association, 2004-2006Academic Senate, CSUSM, 2004-2008Faculty Affairs Committee, CSUSM, 2005-2008Faculty Fellow, Faculty Mentoring Program, CSUSM, 2005-2006

Newman 12Environmental Studies Steering Committee, CSUSM, 2002-2006Arts and Sciences Executive Committee, SUWG, 2001-02American Studies Committee, SUWG, 2001-2002Departmental ServiceWeb Editor, English Department, Westminster College, 2010-presentMajor Map Development Coordinator, English Department, Westminster College, 2012-2013Post-Doc Search Committee, English Department, Westminster College, 2012-2013Americanist Search Committee Chair, English Department, Westminster College, 2009-2010Advisory Committee, LTWR, CSUSM, Fall 2002, 2004-2005, 2007-2008Advisor, Single Subject Waiver Program, LTWR, CSUSM, 2002-2008Professional Review Committee, LTWR, CSUSM, 2005-2006, 2007-2008Outreach Committee, LTWR, CSUSM, 2003-presentProgram Review Committee, LTWR, CSUSM, 2005-2006Advisor, Creative Writing, LTWR, CSUSM, 2003-2005Advisor, Artistic Rights Writing Guild, CSUSM, 2003-2005Creative Writing Search Committee, LTWR, CSUSM, 2004-2005Graduate Committee, LTWR, CSUSM, 2002-2004General Education Task Force, LTWR, CSUSM, Fall 2002Advisory Committee, English Dept., SUWG, 2001-2002Judge, Meganheimer Poetry Prize, Eclectic Magazine, SUWG, 2001-2002Faculty Scribe, English Dept., SUWG, 2000-2001Curriculum Focus Group, English Dept., SUWG, Spring 2001Faculty Workload Committee, English Dept., SUWG, Fall 2000Brittain Fellows Committee, Georgia Tech, 1999-2000Graduate Student Representative, Search Committee, Brown University, 1995-1996Editorial PositionsCopper Beech Press, Providence, RI, Assistant Editor, 1994-95Orchard Books, New York, NY, Assistant Editor, 1987-89New CollAge Magazine, Sarasota, FL, Assistant Editor, 1985-1987Professional MembershipsModern Language AssociationAmerican Literature AssociationAssociation for the Study of Literature and the Environment