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David
W. Newton, Ph.D. University of West Georgia
Phone: (678) 839-4877 (voicemail) / FAX:
(678) 839-4849
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My research and teaching interests focus primarily on the language, literature, and culture of the American South, with particular emphasis on the antebellum era.
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A Complete Vita is on file in the English Department Office
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
I. Education Ph.D., English Literature and Linguistics, Department of English, Emory University, 1993 Areas of Specialization: Linguistics (History of American English and American English Dialects); Southern Literature; Nineteenth-Century American Literature
M.Div., Literature and Theology, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, magna cum laude, 1988 Areas of Specialization: Literature and Theology; Systematic Theology; Historical Theology
B.A., English, The College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, magna cum laude, 1983
II. Honors, Fellowships, and Awards
Teaching Awards Honors College Professor of the Year, University of West Georgia Robert Reynolds Excellent in Teaching English Award, University of West Georgia
Academic Fellowships and Awards Summer Research Fellowship, South Caroliniana Special Collections Library, University of South Carolina Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Southern Studies, Emory University Dissertation Research Fellowship, Emory University Summer Research Grant, Linguistic Atlas Fieldwork in Colorado, Emory University Teaching Fellowship, Emory University Department of English Academic Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University Woodruff Fellowship, Candler School of Theology, Emory University Phi Kappa Phi Research Award for Honors Thesis, The College of Charleston
Service Awards Student Organization Advisor of the Year, University of West Georgia Humanitarian Award for Community Service, Emory University Bishop Robert Smith Award for Academic Excellence and Community Service, The College of Charleston
III. Publications Articles "Afterword.” In Eutaw: A Sequel to The Forayers by William Gilmore Simms. Ed., David W. Newton. Arkansas Simms Series. James L. West, Series Editor. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. 495-511. “Afterword.” In The Forayers, or The Raid of the Dog-Days by William Gilmore Simms. Ed., David W. Newton. Arkansas Simms Series. John Caldwell Guilds, Series Editor. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, November 2003. 497-519. "The Language of the Enchanted Circle: William Gilmore Simms and the Poetics of the American Renaissance." William Gilmore Simms and Americanism. Ed. Miriam Shillingsburg. University of Mississippi Press, 1998: 17-32. (Forthcoming) "Voices Along the Border: Language and the Southern Frontier in Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia." William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier. Eds. John C. Guilds and Caroline Collins. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1997: 118-44. "The Poetry of Zen Buddhism." Journal of International Affairs 6 (Fall 1988): 31‑36. Critical Editions Eutaw: A Sequel to The Forayers by William Gilmore Simms. Edited with Historical Background, Explanatory Notes, and Textual Emendations by David W. Newton. Arkansas Simms Critical Editions Series. James L. West, Series Editor. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. The Forayers, or The Raid of the Dog-Days by William Gilmore Simms. Edited with Historical Background, Explanatory Notes, and Textual Emendations by David W. Newton. Arkansas Simms Critical Editions Series. John Caldwell Guilds, Series Editor. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, November 2003. Forthcoming Publications (Already Under Contract) “It is Genius Only Which Can Make Ghosts:' Narrative Design and the Art of Story-Telling in Gilmore Simms's Grayling; or, Murder Will Out.'" Studies in the Literary Imagination, forthcoming. Editor, Katharine Walton, or the Rebel of Dorchester by William Gilmore Simms. Introduction, Historical and Textual Commentary, Explanatory Notes, and Textual Emendations by David W. Newton. Simms Centennial Critical Edition. James L. W. West, Series Editor. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, forthcoming. Referee (Book Manuscripts) The Poet's Holy Craft: William Gilmore Simms and Romantic Verse Traditions by Matthew Brennan. University of South Carolina Press, 2007. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself. Edited with an Introduction by Robert J. Allison. Second Edition. Bedford / St. Martin’s Press, 2006. Reuben and Rachel, or Tales of Old Times (1798) by Susanna Rowson. Edited with an Introduction by Joseph Bartolomeo. Broadview Press, 2005 Editorial Boards and Editorships Editorial Board, Simms Series, University of Arkansas Press, James L. W. West, General Editor, 2006-Present. Book Review Editor, Christianity and Literature, 1996‑98 Assistant Editor, Christianity and Literature, 1993‑96 Reader / Reviewer, JAISA: Journal of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts, 1994-1998 Linguistic Field Work Linguistic Atlas of the Rocky Mountain States (http://us.english.uga.edu/). Colorado Survey, 1990. VIII. Presentations and Session Moderator at Academic Conferences (Since 1993) “Grandfather Gander: Simms's Nursery Rhymes and the Creation of a Southern Folk Culture." William Gilmore Simms Biennial Symposium. University of Georgia, September 2008 (Accepted). “Staging Identity in Simms's The Wigwam and the Cabin," The Geography of Americanism: Exploring Antebellum Culture. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 2006. Panel Moderator and Respondent, “Staging Differential Identities,” The Geography of Americanism: Exploring Antebellum Culture. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 2006. "Simms's Southern Readership before the Civil War,” Cultural Hearth: William Gilmore Simms and His State, A Bicentennial Celebration,
1806-2006. University of South Carolina, April 2006.
"Grayling; or Murder Will Out": Simms's Ghost Story and the Economies of Theft,” Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Birmingham, AL. March 2006. "Simms, Poe, and the Supernatural.” American Literature Association, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
Panel Moderator and Respondent, “Nationalism: Comparative Imperial and Literary Contexts,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Atlanta, GA, March 2006. "The Giant's Coffin, Or the Feud of Holt and Houston. A Tale of Reedy River:' Classical Mythology and the Formation of American Identity.”
William Gilmore Simms Biennial Symposium, Furman University, April 2004.
Panel Moderator and Respondent, “Simms, Ethnicity and Gender," William Gilmore Simms Biennial Symposium. University of South Carolina, April 2002. “William Gilmore Simms and the Moral Education of the Reader.” American Literature Association Nation Convention. Cambridge, MA. May 2003. "Revolutionary Captives: The Development of the Captivity Tradition in Simms's Fiction” South Central Modern Language Association. Hot Springs, AR. November 2003."Geography, Aesthetics, and Social Class in Simms' Eutaw." American Literature Association Nation Convention. Cambridge, MA. May 2001. "Millennial Space: Technology, Pedagogy, and Departments of English." National College English Association National Convention. Charleston, SC. April 2000. "Simms and the World Wide Web." William Gilmore Simms Biennial Symposium. Charleston, SC. January 2000. "Surveying as Surveillance: Mapping the Cultural Landscape of the Revolutionary War in Simms's The Forayers." American Literature Association National Convention. San Diego, CA. May 1998. "Making Figures Straight: Language and Capital Culture in Simms's "How Sharp Snaffles Got His Capital and His Wife and Faulkner's "Spotted Horses." Simms-Faulkner Conference. New Orleans, LA. December 1997. Panel Moderator and Respondent, Early American Literature Session and Landscapes and Literature Session, Writing and the Sense of Place: National Sigma Tau Delta Convention, Savannah, GA. March 1997. "Story as Figure and Truth in Augustine's Confessions,” Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, Elon College, April 1997. "Course as Text: Assessment as Critical Praxis," Georgia‑Carolina College English Association Conference, Savannah, GA. February 1996. "Ideological Tensions and the Construction of Genre in William Gilmore Simms's Woodcraft," American Literature Association, Baltimore, MD. May 1995. "Visionary Translation in the Poetry of William Gilmore Simms," William Gilmore Simms Biennial Symposium, Mississippi State University. April 1995. "Cultural Engagement and Dissent in Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes," Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, Central Wesleyan University. April 1995. "Owen at War: Transcendence and Design in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Artist of the Beautiful' and John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany," West Georgia International Conference, Atlanta, GA. November 1994. "Simms, Language and the Southern Frontier," William Gilmore Simms Inaugural Symposium, University of Arkansas, April 1993. "Voices of Power and Persuasion: Linguistic Authority and the Language of the Southern Frontier in William Gilmore Simms's Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia," American Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, LA. February 1993. Conference Administration Program Committee, The Geography of Americanism: Exploring Antebellum Culture. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 2006. Publicity Committee, Cultural Hearth: William Gilmore Simms and His State, A Bicentennial Celebration, 1806-2006. South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina. April 2006. Chair, Conference Organizing Committee, Simms Biennial Conference, Furman University, April 2004. Creative Works "The End, The Beginning of Life (The Prison Experiences of Dietrich Bonhoeffer)." Play. Performed at colleges and community theaters since 1988. Have also worked as director and academic consultant for several performances. Performed at the Sixth International Bonhoeffer Conference, Union Theological Seminary, New York. August 1992.
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