Adam Zachary Newton

Adam Zachary Newton is Chair of the Department of English at Yeshiva University[1] and the former Jane and Rowland Blumberg Centennial Professor in English at the University of Texas at Austin.

Newton is a graduate of Haverford College and has a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1992). While at Harvard, his book, Narrative ethics, "sought a bridge between the disciplines of ethical philosophy and literary studies by proposing a new way to think about the moral realms of risk and responsibility as problems of reading." [2] He defines narrative ethics as "the ethical consequences of narrating story... and the reciprocal claims binding teller, listener, witness, and reader in that process."[3] Other scholars apply his approach and find new ways to read old books.[4]

Newton married Miriam Udel in 2011, who had read his book Narrative ethics twice, years before meeting him.[5]

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References

  1. "Dr. Adam Zachary Newton". Yeshiva University web site.
  2. "Fresh Faces". 2007-09-04 Interview (The Commentator, Official Newspaper of Yeshiva College and the Sy Syms School of Business). Retrieved 2008-02-25.
  3. Ballaster, R. (2005). Fabulous orients: fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 13. ISBN 978-0-19-926733-0
  4. Lapsley, J. E. (2005). Whispering the Word: hearing women's stories in the Old Testament. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, p. 100, ISBN 0-664-22435-0
  5. Schwartz, Paula (March 4, 2011). "Weddings: Miriam Udel and Adam Newton". The New York Times.


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