Andrew Newman

I'm an Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University. A lot of my research and teaching is in early American studies. My first book is On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory. My second book, Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivity, is forthcoming in Fall 2018. Please visit my site at Humanities Commons.

Heidi Hutner on Earth Day, Ecofeminism and Racial Injustice in the Year of the Plague, COVID-19 – Ms. Magazine

Published by on May 26, 2020 | 1 Response

In case you missed it, Stony Brook English and Sustainability Professor Heidi Hutner published this essay last month in Ms. Magazine. Source: Earth Day, Ecofeminism and Racial Injustice in the Year of the Plague, COVID-19 – Ms. Magazine Earth Day, Ecofeminism and Racial Injustice in the Year of the Plague, COVID-19 4/22/2020 by Heidi Hutner […]

I’m Taking the CELT Online Teaching Certificate Course, So You Don’t Have To (?): Part I

Published by on May 14, 2020 | 1 Response
I'm Taking the CELT Online Teaching Certificate Course, So You Don't Have To (?): Part I

With Monday’s announcement from the Chancellor of the California-State University system, it seems increasingly likely that SUNY will similarly be delivering instruction almost entirely online in Fall 2020. As we collectively prepare our courses for this contingency, if only the English Department had its own virtual forum for discussing and sharing ideas and resources for […]

Writing a Personal Statement or Statement of Purpose

Published by on October 4, 2017 | 3 Responses
Writing a Personal Statement or Statement of Purpose

I’m embarrassed in retrospect by the statement I wrote when I first applied to PhD programs as a recent graduate from SUNY Binghamton. I was living abroad, in love with what I was doing and with my aspirations, and really excited about being so brilliant and insightful. I wrote something in my first paragraph about […]

Quotation Mark, Period, @$#&!

Published by on April 16, 2017 | 4 Responses
Quotation Mark, Period, @$#&!

In this blog post I’m going to touch on an issue of personal significance to me, so forgive me if it becomes somewhat vehement in tone. It’s subject is the punctuation sequence [“.]! To clarify, the sequence I am referring to is the close-quotation mark (“), followed by the period (.), or, alternatively, by a […]

Article Reviews

Published by on February 4, 2017 | Leave a response
Article Reviews

These two screencasts describe the article review assignment that I use in my 300-level classes. It’s keyed to the Reading and Summarizing Secondary Sources handout. This demo is an article review of Mark Rifkin’s essay “Romancing Kinship: A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories.” We just read the introductory section in […]

Background Image: From John Milton's "Of Education" (1644).
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