Steven Newman

Steve Newman is an Assistant Professor of English at Temple University. He is currently working on revising his dissertation on ballad collection and the institution of literature in Great Britain during the Long Eighteenth Century. An article adapted from that effort, on Allan Ramsay, lyric, and the origins of the Scottish Enlightenment is forthcoming in Modern Language Quarterly. He is also working on projects on personal statements for medical school and the relationship between undergraduate writing instruction and professional desire and on Robert Burns' self-presentation.