Scott L. Newstok teaches courses in Shakespeare and his Renaissance contemporaries, as well as more recent appropriations and adaptations of their works; other interests include ecocriticism, lyric poetry, the history of rhetoric, the literature of citizenship, and film studies. He joined the Rhodes Faculty in 2007 after earning his doctorate from Harvard University and teaching at Oberlin College, Amherst College, and Gustavus Adolphus College, as well as holding the Mellon post-doctoral fellowship in the Humanities at Yale University. He has edited a volume of Kenneth Burke′s Shakespeare criticism, co-edited a collection of essays on Macbeth and race, and published a monograph on early modern English epitaphs.
Ph.D., English and American Language and Literature, Harvard University, 2002
B.A., English, Grinnell College, 1995
- English 151 - FIRST-YEAR WRITING SEMINAR
The Figure of the Citizen
English 190 - INTRODUCTORY TOPICS IN LITERATURE
Shakespeare on Screen
English 230 - SHAKESPEARE′S MAJOR PLAYS
(Spring 2009)
English 332 - ADVANCED SHAKESPEARE STUDIES
Shakespeare & Film
Ecocritical Approaches to Shakespeare
English 335 - MILTON
(Fall 2008)
English 485 - SENIOR SEMINAR: CRITICAL THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
The Return to Philology
Books
Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (co-edited with Ayanna Thompson)
"Weyward Macbeth is an astonishingly wide-ranging volume, taking in an impressive swath of theatrical and cultural history. From Frederick Douglass to Roman Polanski, Middleton to minstrelsy, Aldridge to Ellington, Verdi to hip-hop, the Scottish-Shogun-Voodoo-Tlingit play has sustainened a surprising range of only apparently "weyward" efforts to occupy the intersection of race and power though performance. This is a provocative collection, certain to animate discussion of Macbeth, and much more, for some time to come." -- W. B. Worthen, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia University
Quoting Death in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Reviews online: Appositions and Times Higher Educaton (THE)
Editor, Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare (Parlor Press, 2007)
Reviews online: Anthropoetics, Appositions, College Literature, Comparative Drama, Discoveries, Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS), Essays in Criticism, Hudson Review, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (JEMCS), Journal of the Northern Renaissance, KB Journal, Liminalities, Parergon, Rocky Mountain Review, Shakespeare Bulletin, SHAKSPER, Theatre Survey, & The University of Toronto Quarterly.
Reviews in print: Around the Globe, As We Like It, Folio, Groat′s Worth of Wit, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Notes and Queries, Review of Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Shakespeare Matters, Shakespeare Newsletter, Shakespeare Scene, Shenandoah, South Atlantic Review, Southern Humanities Review, Studies in English Literature (SEL), Theater History Studies, Theatres du Monde, Times Literary Supplement (TLS), & The Upstart Crow.
Book project: Twinomials: Explicating and Unfolding the "two heds" of English
Contributions to Books
"After Welles: Re-do Voodoo Macbeths," in Weyward Macbeth (2010)
"Appendix: Selected Productions of Macbeth Featuring Non-traditional Casting," co-authored with Brent Butgereit, in Weyward Macbeth (2010)
"Elizabeth I’s Death Rehearsal," Goddesses and Queens: Iconography of Elizabeth I (Manchester UP, 2007)
Entries in Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Culture and Popular Culture (Greenwood Press 2006)
Articles
"Certain Tendencies in Shakespeare Film Criticism," co-authored with Richard Burt, Shakespeare Studies special issue on "Shakespeare After Film" (forthcoming)"George W as Henry V," co-authored with Harry Berger, Jr., Shakespeare Yearbook special issue on “Shakespeare after September 11” (forthcoming)
Interview with Welcome Msomi, Shakespeare in Southern Africa (Summer 2009)
"The Poetics of Closure: Epitaphs Ending Renaissance Elegies ‘Here,’" "Literature of the Graveyard" special issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination (Spring 2006)
"re: vs." Review of the play Quinnopolis vs. Hamlet. Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespearean Appropriation (2006)
Editorial preface to Kenneth Burke essay, Shakespeare Quarterly (Autumn 2006)
"Renewing Burke’s “Plea for the Shakespearean Drama,” Literature Compass (Spring 2006)
"Touch of Shakespeare: Welles Unmoors Othello,” Shakespeare Bulletin (Spring 2005)
Reviews
Review of Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity in Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming)
Review of Shakespeare and Historical Formalism in Shakespeare Quarterly (December 2008)
Review of Shakespeare Inside: The Bar Behind Bars in The Upstart Crow (2007)
Review of Shakespeare′s Late Style in Renaissance Quarterly (Fall 2007)
Review of Stanley Cavell′s American Dream in Shakespeare Bulletin (Winter 2006)
Lectures
"Recovering Grafting: Philology as an Ecocritical Practice," World Shakespeare Congress (July 2011)
Respondent, A Midsummer Night′s Dream seminar, Shakepeare Association of America Annual Meeting (April 2010)
"Henry V after September 11, 2001," What′s the Word radio program (September 2009)
Respondent, "Shakespeare Spin-offs" seminar, Shakepeare Association of America Annual Meeting (April 2009)
"Shakespeare and Presidential Politics," invited lecture, Centre College (October 2008)
"Shakespeare′s Medieval Tautologies: Loving and Cherishing English," International Shakespeare Conference, The Shakespeare Institute (August 2008)
Seminar leader, "Burke and Shakespeare," Kenneth Burke Society Triennial Conference, Villanova University (June 2008)
"Welles, Verdi, Othello," Film Music Conference, Bradford International Film Festival (March 2008)
Organizer, "Shakespeare in Color: A Symposium on Macbeth and African-American Performances and Appropriations," Rhodes College (January 25, 2008)
"Civics Lessens: Un-condensing the Seminar," Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies symposium (Spring 2007)
Organizer, Roundtable on "The Military Theatre: Drafting Shakespeare," Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting (April 2006)