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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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"Book Copies and Textual Desire: Reading Early American Poetry Against the Imprint" (Sarah Robins, Tufts University, respondent), American Literature and CUlture Seminar Series, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
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February
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2023
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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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US Popular Print Culture to 1860, eds. Ronald J Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
Chapter: "Manuscript Culture & Print"Published by Oxofrd Univesity Press
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2019
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Stories of Nation: Fictions, Politics, and the American Experience, eds. Martin Griffin and CHristopher Herbert.
Chapter: "Failures of Consensus: Contesting Election Sermons in Puritan New England"Published by University of Tennessee Press
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2017
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"The Versified Lives of Unknown Puritans"
The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America
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2013
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Vol. 107
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Issue #3
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Jeremiah's Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England
Material Texts
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2013
University of Pennsylvania Press
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"Beyond Narrative: John Dane's A Declaration of Remarkable Providences"
Early American Literature
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2005
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Vol. 40
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Issue #2
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Awards & Grants
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Elected Member
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
2019
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Fellow, Second Book Institute
SBI, University of Tulsa
2024
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Short-term Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library
2015
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Lbrary Company of Philadelphia / Robert L. McNeil Jr. Short-term Fellow, Historical Society of Pennsylvainia
2015
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Long-term Fellow, American Antiquarian Society-NEH
2009
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Short-term Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library
2009
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Long-term Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society
2008
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Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society
2012
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Ahmanson-Getty Postoctoral Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th-and 18th-C Studies& the William ANdres Clark Meorial Library
2004
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Hodgkins Junior FacultyAward, Clark Univeristy
2008
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Honorable Mention for the Richard L. Greaves Prize by the International John Bunyan Society
2016
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