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Professor Neuman teaches and researches in the fields of early and nineteenth-century American literature. In her first book, Jeremiah's Scribes: Literary Theories of the Sermon in Puritan New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), she delves into the world of sermon notetaking, shifting attention from pulpit to pew, demonstrating how sermon auditors helped shape this dominant genre of Puritan literature. Professor Neuman's research often focuses on print and manuscript archival sources -- ranging from notebooks kept by Puritans when they were listening to sermons, to amateur manuscript poetry, to readers' marks in print books, to the history and context of the Mather family's vast personal library. Hands-on workshops with materials at the American Antiquarian Society and Clark University's Special Collections are a common feature of her seminars, and she encourgages her students to explore opportunities for original research in the archives at the AAS. Professor Neuman's teaching interests include American literature through the Civil War, 17th-century transatlantic literature, early American print culture, and poetry.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
- B.A. in Classical Languages and Literature, University of Chicago, 1989
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Review of "The Writings of Phillis Wheatley"
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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2022
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"Textual Editing in the Classroom and Beyond"
Textual Editing and the Future of Scholarly Editions:A Conference on the Bicentennial of James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy
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American Antiquarian Society, Worcester MA / ONLINE
May
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2021
Sponsored by American Antiquarian Society (with support from the Bibliographic Society of America)
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New Histories of American Puritan Literature: A Roundtable
Society of Early Americanists BIennial Conference
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online
March
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2021
Sponsored by Society of Early Americanists
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Manuscript Cultures in Seventeenth-Century New England
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2020
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Widows and Orphans; or, Loss and Longing in the Archive
Lecture performance
Lucky Pierre Performance (Lucky Pierre Free University Home School 2020)
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live online; recording online
Jun. 21, 2020
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A History of American Puritan Literature
Chapter: Manuscript CulturePublished by Cambridge University Press
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2020
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Elected Member
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
2019
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