Newman writes widely on early modern letters and culture and on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama.  Her current research on the reception of Shakespeare in Europe and on cultural translation aims to historicize contemporary claims about the globalization of culture.

See above.

See above under honors and awards.

Mellon Foundation for Graduate Workshops ($220,000) 2005 and Mellon post-doctoral program grant ($1.16 m), 2006--2010

NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, 1997-1998

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1989-90

NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers (Director) 1992, 1995, 2003

NEH Travel to Collections Grant, 1990

NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers on Shakespeare (Director), 1989

AAUW Faculty Fellowship, 1985-86

Folger Library Faculty Grant, 1985-86

Wayland Collegium Incentive Grant, Brown University, 1985, 1988, 1994

NEH Summer Stipend, 1983

Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship, 1981

Harvard Mellon Faculty Fellowship, 1980-81

Shakespeare Association of America, Renaissance Society of America, American Comparative Literature Association

Modern Language Association of America, offices held: Chair, Nominating Committee; Chair, Publications Committee, Division Executive Committee, Comparative Renaissance and Baroque Studies, Chair, Committee on Awards and Honors; Chair, Lowell Prize Committee, Chair, Committee on the New Variorum edition of Shakespeare

 

Undergraduate: Shakespeare, all levels; British Literature I; Milton; Introduction to Dramatic Comedy; 17th-century Drama, English and Continental; Renaissance Literature; Theatre and Society in the Renaissance; Renaissance Family Politics; Introduction to Epic; Shakespearean Transformations: Hamlet; Renaissance Versions of the Self; Feminist Theory (Women's Studies Senior Seminar); Female Protagonist in the 19th-century Novel; Madcap Comedies: Women and Film in the 30s and 40s; Women's Writing; Introduction to the Theory of Literature.

Graduate seminars: Theories of Comedy; Renaissance Drama; Interpreting Cultures: The Renaissance; Shakespeare; Renaissance Studies: Methods and Issues; Cultural Production in Early Modern London and Paris; Histories of the Early Modern Body; Writing and Gender in Early Modern England; Staging Culture/Staging Nation: Early Modern English Drama; London c. 1600; Introduction to Early Modern Letters and Cultures.