FREDERICK NEWBERRY
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Office: College Hall 621
Telephone: 412-396-5165
Email: newberryf@duq.edu

Fall 2008 Office Hours:
TTH 10:30-12:00

EDUCATION
B.A., University of Redlands
M.A., University of Redlands
Ph.D., Washington State University

Frederick Newberry primarily teaches nineteenth-century American literature, with occasional excursions into the colonial and modernist periods.  Having written widely on Hawthorne and other nineteenth-century writers, and having edited the NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE REVIEW for the past sixteen years, he is currently preparing a book-length study involving Hawthorne's biographers and some of their speculative, unreliable creations of man as remote from the biographical record as could be imagined.

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

“A Red-Hot A and a Lusting Divine: Sources for The Scarlet Letter,” 1987; reprinted in The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings.  Norton Critical Edition (New York: Norton, 2005).

 “‘The Artist of the Beautiful’: Crossing the Transcendent Divide in Hawthorne’s Fiction” Nineteenth-Century Literature 50 (1995).

 “Hawthorne’s ‘Gentle Boy’: Lost Mediators in Puritan History,” 1984; reprinted in Critical Essays on Hawthorne’s Short Fiction (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991).

“Fantasy, Reality, and Audience in Hawthorne’s ‘Drowne’s Wooden Image,’”  Studies in the Novel 23 (1991).

“Hawthorne” chapter in American Literary Scholarship 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989–1992).

“The Biblical Veil: Sources and Typology in Hawthorne’s ‘The Minister’s Black Veil,’” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 31 (1989).

Hawthorne’s Divided Loyalties: England and America in His Works (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987).

“Tradition and Disinheritance in The Scarlet Letter,” 1977; reprinted in Norton Critical Edition of The Scarlet Letter, 3d ed. (New York: Norton, 1987): 231–48.

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