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\u00a0Meredith Marie Neuman
\n<\/b>Department of English<\/span>
\n Clark University<\/span>
\n 950 Main Street<\/span>
\n Worcester MA 01610<\/span>
\n 508-793-7298<\/span>
\n meneuman@clarku.edu<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2004\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, English<\/span>
\n 1994-96\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Non-degree graduate work in English, University of Illinois Chicago<\/span>
\n 1989\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 B.A., University of Chicago, Classics<\/span><\/p>\n

Appointments<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Associate Professor of English, Clark University, 2012-present<\/span>
\n Adjunct Associate of History, Clark University, 2012-present<\/span>
\n Assistant Professor of English, Clark University, 2005-2012<\/span>
\n Teaching Assistant\/Teaching Fellow, UCLA, 1997-2004<\/span><\/p>\n

Areas of Research and Teaching<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Early and antebellum American literature; Puritan literature, religion early modern literature; poetry, poetry performance, manuscript and \u201camateur\u201d poetry; book history, manuscript culture, material textuality, American print culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Selected Fellowships and Grants<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Folger Shakespeare Library short-term fellowship<\/p>\n

2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Library Company of Philadelphia \/ Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellow, Historical Society of Pennsylvania short-term fellowship<\/p>\n

2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Davis Educational Foundation grant (awarded through Clark University) <\/span>for new course development<\/span><\/p>\n

2012,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Higgins School of the Humanities, Clark University, grant to attend <\/span>
\n 2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rare Book School, University of Virginia<\/span><\/p>\n

2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 American Antiquarian Society-NEH long-term fellowship<\/span><\/p>\n

2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Folger Shakespeare Library short-term fellowship<\/span><\/p>\n

2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Massachusetts Historical Society-NEH long-term fellowship<\/span><\/p>\n

2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library short-term fellowship (declined<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Higgins School of the Humanities, Clark University, summer research grant<\/span><\/p>\n

2004-05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-C <\/span>Studies &
\nThe William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA<\/span><\/p>\n

2002-03\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 James E. Phillips Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA<\/span><\/p>\n

2002\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Pre-dissertation Fellowship, UCLA<\/span><\/p>\n

Honors and Awards<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Honorable mention for Jeremiah\u2019s Scribes<\/em> for the Richard L. Greaves Prize<\/a> by the International John Bunyan Society<\/a><\/p>\n

2012-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society<\/span><\/p>\n

2011-12\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alice Coonley Higgins Faculty Fellow, Higgins School of the Humanities, <\/span>Clark University<\/span><\/p>\n

2009-10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Outstanding Teacher Award, Clark University<\/span><\/p>\n

2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hodgkins Junior Faculty Award, Clark University<\/span><\/p>\n

2006-07\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Higgins School Junior Faculty Fellow, Higgins School of Humanities, <\/span>Clark University<\/span><\/p>\n

1989\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John G. Hawthorne Award for Classical Studies, University of Chicago
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Book<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah\u2019s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England<\/i><\/a> (University of Pennsylvania Press, Material Texts series, 2013)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Selected Articles, Reviews, Reference, and Editing
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cManuscript Culture & Print\u201d for The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture<\/em><\/a>, ed. Gary Kelly. Vol. 5, US Popular Print Culture to 1860<\/em>, eds. Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2018).<\/p>\n

\u201cErrand into Exceptionalism: the Early Election Sermon in Retrospect,\u201d in Stories of Nation: Fictions, Politics, and the American Experience<\/em>. Eds. Martin Griffin and Christopher Herbert. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, forthcoming early 2017).<\/p>\n

Feature editor, \u201cEsther Forbes: the Artist in the Archive,\u201d The Worcester Review<\/em> 36.1-2 (2015).<\/p>\n

Review of Vincent Carretta, Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage<\/i> (The University of Georgia Press) in Church History<\/i>, December 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Versified Lives of Unknown Puritans\u201d The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, <\/em>2013.<\/p>\n

Entry on \u201cSermons\u201d in Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment<\/i>.\u00a0 Ed. Mark G. Spencer.\u00a0 New York and London: Continuum, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPuritan History in the Present Tense.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 Review of Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates<\/i> (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008) in Common-Place<\/i> January 2009.\u00a0 www.common-place.org<\/span>.<\/span><\/a>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Review of David Read, New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing<\/i> (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005) in New England Quarterly<\/i>, September 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond Narrative: John Dane\u2019s A Declaration of Remarkable Providences<\/i>\u201d Early American Literature<\/i> 40.2, 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n

Entries on \u201cSamuel Danforth,\u201d \u201cEdward Johnson,\u201d Jonathan Mitchell,\u201d \u201cSamuel Sewall,\u201d and \u201cWilliam Wood\u201d for The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry<\/i>.\u00a0 Jeffrey H. Gray, James McCorkel, and Mary Balkun editors.\u00a0 Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 British and Irish Literature and Its Times: Celtic Migrations to the Reform Bill (beginnings-1830s)<\/i>.\u00a0 Ed. Joyce Moss and Lorraine Valestuk.\u00a0 Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. \u00a0Pp. 339-48.<\/span><\/p>\n

Selected Conference Papers, Presentations, and Responses<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMather Family Library.\u201d part of panel discussion on \u201cThe Future of Early American Library History: Needs & Opportunities,\u201d Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Tulsa, OK, March 2017<\/p>\n

Respondent for talk by Leonard Von Morze, American Literature and Culture Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2017<\/p>\n

\u201cManuscripts,\u201d part of an invited state-of-the field roundtable, Early American Material Texts, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, PA, May 2016<\/p>\n

Comment, \u201cMaking Sense of the Mathers,\u201d American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, Pittsburg, PA, March\/April 2016<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore They Were Famous (Not That They Ever Were Famous): Juvenilia, Amateurism, and Poetic Practice in Early America,\u201d Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Philadelphia PA, November 2015<\/p>\n

\u201cNo Religion but in Things\u201d roundtable, OIEAHC-Society of Early Americanists Conference, Chicago IL, June 2015<\/p>\n

\u201cRabbit Holes and Metadata: Describing the Mather Library at the American Antiquarian Society.\u201d Digital Antiquarian Conference, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester MA, May 2015<\/p>\n

\u201cIncrease Mather Went to London, and All I Got Was This Bibliographic Headache: Questions and the Archive,\u201d London and the Americas, 1492-1812, Special conference of the Society of Early Americanists hosted by Kingston University UK, July 2014<\/p>\n

Respondent, \u201cLondon Bound: Dissenting Protestants of British North America,\u201d London and the Americas, 1492-1812, Special conference of the Society of Early Americanists hosted by Kingston University UK, July 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cSaving Mistress Bradstreet (a brief history),\u201d C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference (\u201cThe Commons\u201d), Chapel Hill NC, March 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cA couplet and a quatrain walk into a tavern…; or, Rhyme scheme in early America,\u201d Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee WI, November 2013. (Also served as organizer and chair for this panel, \u201cReclaiming a Barbarous Artifice: Creative Research into the Work of Rhyme\u201d<\/em>)<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaking for Others: the Vicarious Experiences of Poetic Convention,\u201d Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Savannah GA, March 2013<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Versified Lives of Unknown Puritans,\u201d special conference on Poetry and Print, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, September 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMargins of Stability: Translation, Literal Sense, and the Puritan Plain Style,\u201d special conference on The King James Bible and Its Cultural Afterlife, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn Mediocrity: Sentimental Modes and Pious Versifiers,\u201d Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Philadelphia PA, March 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUnauthorizing Texts: Puritan Notetaking and Sermon Publication,\u201d American Antiquarian Society academic seminar series, Worcester, MA, October 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPuritan as Theorist\u2028,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association 2009 Annual Meeting:\u2028 Global Languages, Local Cultures, American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, MA, April 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018a tedious piece of work<\/i>\u2019\u201d (part of roundtable on \u201cManuscripts in an Age of Print\u201d), Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Hamilton Bermuda, March 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

Respondent, \u201cThe History of the Book and Early American Literature\u201d Northeast MLA, Boston, MA, February 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

Respondent, \u201cConversion, Identity and Otherness\u201d (Religion and Literature Permanent Sections), Midwest MLA, Minneapolis, MN, November 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFundamentalism: a Puritan Perspective\u201d (part of roundtable on \u201cPuritan Promiscuities: Transnational, Transhistorical, and Interdisciplinary Dimensions of Contemporary Puritan Scholarship\u201d), Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Williamsburg, VA, June 2007<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGrace in a Hail of Bullets: Habits of Calvinist Thought in True Crime Cinema,\u201d Midwest MLA, Chicago, IL, November 2006<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPoets and Confessors: Edward Taylor, Puritan Conversion and Problem of Divine Address\u2028,\u201d American Comparative Literature Association 2006 Annual Meeting:\u2028 The Human and Its Others, Princeton University, NJ, March 2006<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDrunken Arrows and the Taste of Honey: Seventeenth-Century Continuities in Edwards\u2019 \u2018Rhetoric of Sensation,\u2019\u201d Midwest MLA, Milwaukee, WI, November, 2005<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTelling and Time: Ruptured Conversion Stories in Seventeenth-Century New England,\u201d \u201cTemporalities,\u201d William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA, May 2005<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWas Anyone Ever Converted by a Sermon Cycle?\u201d, Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Alexandria VA, March 2005<\/span><\/p>\n

Invited Talks and Symposia
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDesiderata<\/em>: Fantasies of Print Culture and Early American Poetry,\u201d American Antiquarian Society academic seminar series, Worcester, MA, November 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cInevitabilities of the Book\u201d symposium, Yale Program in the History of the Book, Yale University, New Haven, CT, September 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s the Matter with Early American Poetry?\u201d Americanist Research Colloquium, UCLA Department of English, Los Angeles CA, June 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrumbling, Collating, and Enabling; or, How to Write Puritan Literature,\u201d Fordham University, April 2013<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cListening to the Notetakers: Understanding Sermon Culture in Puritan New England,\u201d History Department Colloquium, Clark University, February 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUnauthorized Puritans,\u201d Higgins Faculty Series, Clark University, February 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

“Unauthorizing Texts: Puritan Notetaking and Sermon Publication,” Regional Academic Seminar, American Antiquarian Society, October 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

Selected Professional Activities<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cReading Seventeenth-Century Handwriting,\u201d workshop organizer and instructor, with Ashley Cataldo, at the Society of Early Americanists, biennial conference, Tulsa, OK, spring 2017<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy We Can\u2019t Read Nineteenth-Century Poetry,\u201d participant in seminar convened by Virginia Jackson and Michael Cohen, C19 conference, State College, PA<\/p>\n

Courses in \u201cIntroduction to Descriptive Bibliography,\u201d \u201cAnalytic Bibliography,\u201d and \u201cIntroduction to the History of Bookbinding,\u201d Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, summers 2010 & 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

Faculty weekend seminar on \u201cManaging Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age\u201d at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, winter 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

Summer Seminar (History of the Book), \u201cBooks and Their Readers to 1800 and Beyond,\u201d American Antiquarian Society, summer 2006<\/span><\/p>\n

Creative Work<\/strong><\/p>\n

Untitled audiobook project of Anne Bradstreet\u2019s 1678 edition of Several Poems<\/em>, with Meghan Monk, Caitlin Indermaur, et alia, in progress<\/p>\n

\u201cWitch-Hunting: What\u2019s In It For Me?\u201d, sound installation performance, recorded with Meghan Monk, Tom Rhalter, Sabrina Taveras, and Caitlin Indermaur. Performed November 2014 as part of past present futures<\/em>, curated by NYPAC (New York Performance Artists Collective) at the Knockdown Center, Queens, NY<\/p>\n

\u201cQuestions of Faith,\u201d spoken-word chorus based on interviews conducted with Clark University students, written with Ayaan Agane and Heather Cenedella. Performed October 2007 at Razzo Hall, Clark University, Worcester, MA<\/p>\n

Courses Taught<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Undergraduate courses:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n