Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/12/2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
B192 JFSB
Category(ies)
Robert Newman, President and Director of the National Humanities Center will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Monday, September 12th. The presentation will be held at 12:00 PM in the Education in Zion Theater (B192 JFSB).
Dr. Newman was previously dean of the College of Humanities, professor of English, and associate vice president for interdisciplinary studies at the University of Utah, where he was widely recognized for dramatically increasing support for the college, expanding its programs, and broadening campus diversity. In addition to establishing a new Humanities building on campus, he established the first country’s graduate program in Environmental Humanities and led the creation of the Taft/Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities in Centennial Valley, Montana. He also has held faculty appointments at the University of South Carolina, where he was chair of the English Department, at Texas A&M University, and the College of William and Mary.
Dr. Newman’s scholarship has focused on twentieth-century English and American literature and culture and narrative theory. He has published six books; over a hundred articles, reviews, and poems; and has given talks throughout the world. He has received awards not only for his scholarship but also for his institutional leadership and teaching. For the past twenty years, he has been general editor of the “Cultural Frames, Framing Culture” series published by University of Virginia Press. Recently, he was celebrated as a Distinguished Alumnus at both The Pennsylvania State University, where he received his BA, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his PhD.
Title: On Grants for BYU Humanities Faculty
Dr. Newman’s Colloquium address will focus on the grants that our humanities faculty have access to through the partnership we have created with the National Humanities Center.
