Daniel Aureliano Newman

I am an Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) in the Department of English, as well as the Director of Graduate Writing Support in the Faculty of Arts & Science.

My teaching focuses primarily on scholarly writing. Working with graduate students across Arts & Science, I run clinics, peer-review sessions and roundtables on writing strategies and skills. I also lead writing groups and camps designed to help graduate students begin, continue and finish their dissertations, articles, proposals and other documents. In the Department of English, I teach narrative theory and twentieth- and twenty-first century literature.

My research specializes in narratology, Literature & Science Studies, and modern and contemporary British and Irish fiction, though I have also published on American and Canadian literature, on Shakespeare, and on narrative in science communication.

Office Hours

By Appointment

Publications

Books

Modernist Life Histories: Biological Theory and the Experimental Bildungsroman, Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Articles and Chapters

“Science Storytelling beyond the Dramatic Arc: Narrativity and Little Red Schoolhouse Principles in Science Communication.” Journal for the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning 28 (2023) (forthcoming).

“Comparative Literature & Science, in the Abyss: (Meta)Fiction and Benthic Biology in Woolf, Gide, Huxley, and Brossard,” invited contribution for CompLit: Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society 1.5 (2023) (forthcoming).

“Introduction: Narratologies of Science.” Journal of Narrative Theory 53.2 (2023), special issue on Narratologies of Science, ed. Daniel Aureliano Newman. (Forthcoming.)

“Limits of Narrative Science: Unnarratability and Neonarrative in Evolutionary Biology.” Partial Answers 20.2 (2022), 331-51, special issue on The Limits of Narrative, eds Samuli Björninen and Merja Polvinen.

“Beyond the Search Image: Reading as (Re)Search.” Modernism, Theory and Responsible Reading, ed. Stephen Ross, pp. 93-109. Bloomsbury, 2021.

"From ‘Flowery Expression' to Floral Motif: Adapting Discordant Narration in Sarah Polley's Away from Her." Ekphrasis: Images, Cinema, Theory, Media 22.2 (2019): 54-72.

"Narrative: Common Ground in Literature and Science Studies?" Configurations 26.3 (2018): 277-82, special joint issue with Journal of Literature and Science on "The State of the Unions II"

"Your Body Is Our Black Box: Narrating Nations in Second-Person Fiction by Edna O'Brien and Jennifer Egan." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 5.1 (2018): 42-65, special issue on Narrative Theory and Experimental Fiction, ed. Brian Richardson.

"Nabokov's Gradual and Dual Blues: Unreliability, Taxonomy, and Ethics in Lolita." Journal of Narrative Theory 48.1 (2018): 54-84.

"Terms of Art in Law and Herbals." Shakespeare's Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools. Edited by Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Mark Kaethler & Janelle Jenstad 47-65. New York: Routledge, 2018.

"Plot Counter Plot: Genetics and Generic Strain in the Modernist Novel of Formation." Intervalla: Platform for Intellectual Exchange 4 (2016): 30-69.

"‘Education of an Amphibian': Anachrony, Neoteny and Bildung in Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza." Twentieth Century Literature 62.4 (2016): 403-28.

“Heredity, Kin Selection and the Fate of Characters in E.M. Forster’s The Longest Journey.” Fact and Fiction: Literature and Science in the German and European Context. Edited by Christine Lehleiter, 247-71. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2016.  

"A Source for ‘The Most Profound Sentence' in A Portrait of the Artist." James Joyce Quarterly 52.1 (2014): 165-68.

"Flaubertian Aesthetics, Modernist Ethics and Animal Representation in Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa." Style 47.4 (Winter 2013): 509-24.

Burkle, L.A., R.E. Irwin, & D.A. Newman. "Predicting the Effects of Nectar Robbing on Plant Reproduction: Implications of Pollen Limitation and Plant Mating System." American Journal of Botany 94 (2007): 1935-43.

Newman, D.A. & J.D. Thomson. "Interactions among Nectar Robbing, Floral Herbivory, and Ant Protection in Linaria vulgaris."Oikos 110 (2005): 497-506.

Newman, D.A. & J.D. Thomson. "Effects of Nectar Robbing on Nectar Dynamics and Bumblebee Foraging Strategies in Linaria vulgaris." Oikos 110 (2005): 309-20.