Rebecca Newman teaches and researches in eighteenth and nineteenth century British literature. She joined the Rhodes Faculty after completing her doctorate at the University of Cambridge and a lectureship at the University of Wales. Professor Newman has published on Romantic-era periodicals and is currently working on a study on authorship and genre within the early nineteenth century magazine.
Professor Newman′s Vita (PDF)
King′s College, University of Cambridge, Ph.D., 2004
University of York School of Eighteenth Century Studies, M.A. Hons., 1998
King′s College, University of Cambridge, B.A. Hons., 1996
- English 151 - FIRST YEAR WRITING SEMINAR
- English 210 - INTERPRETING LITERATURE
- English 350 - ROMANTIC POETRY AND PROSE
- English 380 - TOPICS: CRIMINAL FICTIONS
- English 385 - ADV TOPICS: ENGLAND 1819
′Prosecuting the onus criminus: Early Criticism of the Novel in Fraser′s Magazine′ in Victorian Periodicals Review, 35: 4 (2002): 400-419.
′Ruskin′s God, Michael Wheeler′ in Religion and the Arts 5:3 (2001): 368-370