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Judie Newman

Professor of American Studies, Faculty of Arts

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Brought up and educated in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, she gained Honours MA in English Language and Literature (1972) and in French Language and Literature (1974) at the University of Edinburgh. She worked at the University of Metz, (1972-3), then gained a Carnegie fellowship for doctoral study (Clare College, Cambridge, PhD American literature 1982). From 1976 to 1999 she was Lecturer, Reader, and then Professor of American and Postcolonial Literature, School of English, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, moving in 2000 to the Chair of American Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is a recipient of the Arthur Miller Prize in American Studies, a former Chair of the British Association for American Studies, a Founding Fellow of the English Association, and an Academician, Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. She has published widely on American and Postcolonial literature (Saul Bellow and History, 1984; John Updike, 1988; Nadine Gordimer, 1988; Nadine Gordimer : Palabra, Sexo y Consciencia en Africa, 1997 ; editor, Dred : A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1992, 1999;The Ballistic Bard : Postcolonial Fictions, 1995; Alison Lurie ,2000; Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter: A Casebook, 2003.)Fictions of America:Narratives of Global Empire (Routledge 2007); ed. with C-M Bernier,Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery (Routledge 2009).See Who's Who.

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Research Summary

American Literature, particularly contemporary American fiction, books on Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alison Lurie, Harriet Beecher Stowe.Postcolonial fiction particularly South African, books on… read more

Selected Publications

Current Research

American Literature, particularly contemporary American fiction, books on Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alison Lurie, Harriet Beecher Stowe.Postcolonial fiction particularly South African, books on Nadine Gordimer. Globalisation and contemporary fiction. The literature of slavery.

Past Research

See Who's Who.

Future Research

Writing a book entitled Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction (Routledge, 2013) including chapters on Jewish-American-Iranian writers (e.g. Dalia Sofer) , neo slave narrative (Bernardine Evaristo) , Susan Choi, Bharati Mukherjee, Andre Dubus III., John Updike, Kim Edwards.

  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2012. "Slavery in British and American Literature.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2012. “The Black Atlantic as Dystopia.Bernadine Evaristo's Blonde Roots.” Comparative Literature Studies. 49(2), 281-295.
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2012. Saul Bellow and Trotsky. In: TREPANNIER, LEE AND CRONIN, GLORIA, ed., A Political Companion to Saul Bellow University of Kentucky Press. (In Press.)
  • NEWMAN, J, 2012. Saul Bellow: The Cultural and Historical Context. In: CHAVKIN, ALLAN, ed., Saul Bellow: Critical insights Salem Press. 53-68
  • 2012. “Slave Narratives and Neo-Slave Narratives”. In: In S.Monteith (ed.) Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South. CUP. (In Press.)
  • NEWMAN, J, 2011. , “Updike’s Many Worlds: Local and Global in Toward the End of Time,” The John Updike Review. 1(1), 53-67
  • NEWMAN, J., 2011. Writing Against Slavery : Harriet Beecher Stowe. In: CLAPP, E. , JEFFREY, J. R., ed., Women, dissent, and anti-slavery in Britain and America, Oxford : OUP. 175-196
  • NEWMAN, J, 2011. Glocalizing Gilroy Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. 17(1), 93-102
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2011. “Commentary: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Instalment 20 November 1851”, Uncle Tom’s Cabin in The National Era, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, Connecticut. Available at: <“Commentary: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Instalment 20 November 1851”, Uncle Tom’s Cabin in The National Era, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, Connecticut, 20 November 2011. http://nationalera.wordpress.com/further-reading/chapters-22-23-comment-by-judie-newman/>
  • NEWMAN,J, 2010. “Blowback : André Dubus III’s House of Sand and Fog”, Critique:Studies in Modern Fiction. 51(4), 378-393
  • NEWMAN.J, 2010. ‘ “Rotten with perfection”: the Entelechial Fictions of Kim Edwards.’ Comparative American Studies. 8(1), 22-38
  • NEWMAN, J, 2009. "Bharati Mukherjee". In: SEED, D, ed., A Companion to Twentieth Century U.S. Fiction Blackwells: London. 539-547.
  • NEWMAN, J, 2009. “In the Missionary Position,” Emily Prager in China “. In: CASTILLO, S AND SEED, D, ed., American Travel and Empire Liverpool University Press: Liverpool/Louisiana UP. 238-254
  • BERNIER, C AND NEWMAN, J, ed., 2009. Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery Routledge.
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2008. History and letters : Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay. In: KOHLI, DEVINDRA AND JUST, MARIA, ed., Anita Desai : critical perspectives Pencraft International, New Delhi. 195-207
  • NEWMAN, J, 2008. "Foreword". In: GIBBS, ALAN, ed., Henry Roth’s Autobiographical tetralogy, Mercy of a Rude Stream 1994-1998. Edwin Mellen Press,. (In Press.)
  • NEWMAN, J AND BERNIER, C-M, 2008. "Introduction" Slavery and Abolition: Special Issue ", “Public Art: Artefacts and AtlanticSlavery". 29(2), 135-50
  • 2008. Alison Lurie The Literary Ecyclopedia. Available at: <www.litencyc.com>
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2007. “The Readerly Politics of Western Domination : Emily Prager’s ‘A Visit From the Footbinder’” . Journal of the Short Story in English, .. 48, 95-110
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2007. "Priority Narratives: Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters" English and American Literary Studies (Shanghai). 6, 130-144
  • NEWMAN, J., 2007. Fictions of America: narratives of global empire London: Routledge.
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2005. “The Afterlife of Dred on the British Stage,”. In: KOHN, D., MEER, S. and TODD, E., eds., Transatlantic Stowe : Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture. University of Iowa press. 206-224
  • BERNIER, C.-M. and NEWMAN, J., 2005. The Bondswoman's Narrative: Text, Paratext, Intertext and Hypertext Journal of American Studies. VOL 39(NUMB 2), 147-166
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2005. Updike's Golden Oldies : Rabbit as Spectacular Man. In: SEED, D., ed., Literature and the Visual Media Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2005. Shirley Jackson and the Reproduction of Mothering : The Haunting of Hill House". In: MURPHY, B.M., ed., Shirley Jackson : Essays on the Literary Legacy 169-182
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2005. Grace Paley. In: BOOKER, K.M., ed., Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics Westport: Greenwood Press. 543-4
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2005. Black Atlantic or Black Athena? Neo-slave narratives in contemporary fiction. Foreign Literature Studies. 1(64-71),
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2005. “The World of Work : Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux and Rabbit Is Rich”. In: DE BELLIS, J., ed., John Updike: The Critical Responses to the "Rabbit" Saga Greenwood Pub Group. 194-208
  • NEWMAN, J, 2005. "Napalm and After : The Politics of Grace Paley's Short Fiction.". In: . THOMAS J.SCHOENBERG AND LAWRENCE J TRUDEAU, ed., Short Story Criticism, 79. Gale. 171-6
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2005. Harriet Beecher Stowe. In: BOOKER, K.M., ed., Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics Westport: Greenwood Press. 699-70
  • NEWMAN, J, 2004. "Post-Colonial Gothic : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Sobhraj Case",. In: FRED BOTTING AND DALE TOWNSHEAD, ed., Gothic : Critical concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies I. London and New York : Routledge. 293-306
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2004. Postkoloniale Parasitter. Peter Hoegs Froken Smillas fornemmelse for sne. Spring. Tidsskrift for moderne dansk litteratur. 22(1), 9-27
  • NEWMAN, J., 2004. Staging black insurrection : <i>Dred</i> on Stage. In: WEINSTEIN, C., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 113-130
  • NEWMAN, J., 2003. `Dis ain't Gimme, Florida': Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God Modern Language Review. VOL 98(PART 4), 817-826
  • NEWMAN, J., ed., 2003. Nadine Gordimer's Burger's daughter : a casebook Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2002. Stowe's Sunny Memories of Highland Slavery. In: BEER, J. and BENNETT, B., eds., Special Relationships : Anglo-American affinities and antagonisms 1854-1936 Manchester: Manchester University Press. 28-41
  • NEWMAN, J, 2002. An overview of the life and career of Nadine Gordimer. In: BURNS, T AND HUNTER, J, ed., Contemporary Literary criticism Gale. 334-385
  • NEWMAN, J, 2002. The Lying Days. In: BURNS, T AND HUNTER, J, ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism Gale. 84-124.
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2001. Napalm and After: The Politics of Grace Paley's Short Fiction The Yearbook of English Studies. VOL 31, 2-9
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2001. Nadine Gordimer. In: JOLLY, M., ed., Encyclopedia of Life Writing Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. 392-3
  • NEWMAN, J., 2001. Jump Starts: Nadine Gordimer After Apartheid. In: YOUSAF, N., ed., Apartheid Narratives Amsterdam: Rodopi. 101-114
  • NEWMAN, J, 2000. "Retrofitting the Raj : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Uses and Abuses of the Past",. In: WERLOCK, A, ed., British Women Writing Fiction Tuscaloosa ; University of Alabama Press. 70-89
  • NEWMAN, J, 2000. "Zapotec Man and the Torajan Granny : Mosby's Memoirs and the sacrifice of the heart,". In: Small Planets : Saul Bellow as Short Fiction Writer michigan State university Press. 113-126
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 2000. Alison Lurie Amsterdam: Rodopi Editions.
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 1999. Was Tom White? Stowe's Dred and Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. In: , ed., Soft Canons: American Women Writers and the Masculine Tradiation Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 67-81
  • NEWMAN, J, 1999. "Guru Industries, Ltd. : Red Letter Religion in Updike's S". In: YERKES, J, ed., John Updike and Religion: The Sense of the Sacred and the Motions of Grace, Grand Rapids , Michigan and Cambridge, England : Eerdmans. 228-241
  • TALLACK, D.G. and NEWMAN, J., 1998. Text and Context American Studies Today. 7, 6-8
  • NEWMAN,J, 1998. Rabbit at Rest : The Return of the Work Ethic. In: BROER, L, ed., .), Rabbit Tales : Poetry and Politics in Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy U of Alabama Press. 189-206
  • NEWMAN,J, 1998. "Rebounding Metaphors : Culture and Conquest in J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur",. In: CRANE, R,J., ed., Critical essays on J.G.Farrell Dublin: Four Courts Press. 80-96
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 1997. Spaces In-Between: Hester Prynne as the Salem Bibi in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World Journal of Literary Studies, Special Issue: Politics and the Novel. VOL 13(1/2), 62-91
  • NEWMAN, J, 1996. "Bellow's Ransom Tale: The Holocaust, The Victim, and The Double" Saul bellow Journa;. 14(1), 3-18
  • NEWMAN, J, 1996. Marilynne Robinson. In: BERTENS, H, ed., Post-War Literatures in English Wolters Noordhoff. 1-9, A1, B1-3.
  • NEWMAN, JUDIE, 1995. The Ballistic Bard: Postcolonial Fictions London: Edward Arnold,.

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