Sara Newman

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.

Books

• Writing Disability: A Critical History, "Disability in Society" Series, Lynne Rienner Publishers and FirstForumPress 2012.
• Aristotle and Style. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. (Reviewed by Lucia Calboli Montefusco in Rhetorical Review, February 2006, 4/1: 20-23.)

Book Chapters

• "Rare Diseases: The Disability and Medical Model." In Rare Diseases in the Age of Health 2.0. Rajeev K. Bali, Lodewijk Bos, M Chris Gibbons, Simon Ibell, Eds. Springer Publishers/Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics series. (forthcoming 2013).
• "Writing on the Spectrum: Autistic Integrity, Audience, and DSM-5." With Beth Tomlinson. Composition Studies Fall 2017 (forthcoming).
• "How to Write a Scientific Article in Earth Sciences for Publication in an International Journal." With Yoram Eckstein. Science and Education.[КАК ПОДГОТОВИТЬ СТАТЬЮ В ЗАРУБЕЖНЫЙ ЖУРНАЛ В ОБЛАСТИ НАУК О ЗЕМЛЕ УДК] (December 2014).

• “Portrait of Sixteenth Century Disability? Quentin Matsys’ A Grotesque Old Woman.” Review of Disability Studies (December 2014).

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).

Current Projects

• Remembering the Siberian Holocaust: The Twenty-First Century Memory Palace (manuscript in preparation; working title).

• Do No Harm. Nineteenth Century American Medical Schooling: A Rhetorical Education  (working title; manuscript in preparation).

• Gilbert Austin and the Elocutionary Movement. With Sigrid Streit (in preparation for the “Rhetoric in the Modern Era” series at Southern Illinois University Press).

Research Areas

• Classical Rhetoric
• History of Rhetoric
• Disability Studies
• Rhetoric of Medicine