Robert Newman, President and Director of the National Humanities Center

Since 2015, Robert D. Newman has served as president and director of the National Humanities Center, working to broaden the Center's scholarly mission, diversity, programming, and educational outreach as well as to encourage vibrant public engagement with, and national advocacy for, the humanities. 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 and also has held faculty appointments at the University of South Carolina, Texas A&M University, and the College of William and Mary. A literary scholar by training, Newman's scholarship has focused on twentieth-century English literature and culture and narrative theory. He has published six books, numerous articles, reviews, and poems, and, for the past nineteen years, he has been General Editor of the “Cultural Frames, Framing Culture” series published by the University of Virginia Press. Recently, he was celebrated as a Distinguished Alumnus at both Penn State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. National Humanities Center website - https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NationalHumanitiesCenter/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/natlhumanities

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