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Sara Newman

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1998

Sara Newman holds a B.A. in English, an M.A. in the History of Art, and a Ph.D.in Rhetoric (University of Minnesota, 1998). As a member of the English Department graduate program in Literacy, Rhetoric, and Social Practice, she teaches writing, literature, and rhetorical theory.

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Books

  • Disability and Self-Life-Writing: A Critical History. (Letter of intent to publish in the "Disability in Society" series, Lynne Rienner Publishers and FirstForumPress).
  • Aristotle and Style. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. (Reviewed by Lucia Calboli Montefusco in Rhetorical Review, Feruary 2006, 4/1: 20-23.)
  • Rhetoric and Magic. Parlor Press (manuscript in preparation). Co-Editor with Morgan Reitmeyer and Bill Fitzgerald.

Book Chapters

  • "Medieval Voices: Poets, Saints, and Sinners." With Yvonne Teems. In Disability History Anthology. S. Burch and M. Rembis, Eds. (manuscript in preparation).
  • "Medicine, Magic, and movement in Europe, 1500-1800." In Rhetoric and Magic. Parlor Press (manuscript in preparation).

Articles

  • "Disability and Self Life Writing: Reports from the Nineteenth Century Asylum." Special Issue of The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 5/3 (2011): 261-278.
  • "J.M. Itard's 1825 Study: Movement and the Science of the Human Mind." History of Psychiatry 21/1 (March 2010): 67-78.
  • "Gestural Enthymemes: Delivering Movement in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Medical Images." Written Communication 26/3 (special issue on medicine and writing; July 2009): 273-294.
  • "Irreconcilable Differences?  Medicine, Law, and Education in Democratic Policy Debates." (Disability Studies Quarterly, http://www.dsq-sds.org/issue/current, July 2009).
Research Areas
  • Classical Rhetoric
  • History of Rhetoric
  • Disability Studies
  • Rhetoric of Medicine
Affiliations

Alliance of Rhetorical Societies
American Society for the History of Medicine
American Society for the History of Rhetoric
Disability History Association
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
National Communication Association
Rhetoric Society of America
Society for the Social Studies of Science
Society for Disability Study
Southern Association for the History of Medicine  

Sara Newman
OFFICE
Department of English
CONTACT INFO
Phone: 330-672-1757
snewman@kent.edu
COURSES TEACHING
Spring 2012
  • HONR 10297-015 Freshman Honors Colloquium Ii
  • CPHY 64495-016 St : Scientific Communication
  • ENG 65022-001 Greek And Roman Rhetoric
  • ENG 75022-001 Greek And Roman Rhetoric
  • ENG 89199-007 Dissertation I
  • ENG 89299-009 Dissertation Ii
  • ENG 78096-030 Individual Investigation
  • ENG 89199-032 Dissertation I
  • ENG 89299-037 Dissertation Ii
  • HONR 10197-015 Freshman Honors Colloquium I
  • ENG 65011-001 Intro To Field Of Writing
  • ENG 75011-001 Intro To Field Of Writing
  • ENG 89199-003 Dissertation I
  • ENG 89299-010 Dissertation Ii
EXPERTISE
  • Classical Rhetorical Theory
  • History of Rhetoric
  • Style
  • Gesture
  • Disability Studies