Current Member
Jane Newman
Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Comparative Literature
Home Institution
UC Irvine
Website
Jane Newman is interested in dialogues between pre- and early modernity and the modern and post-modern present. At IAS, she will complete her book on Erich Auerbach's readings of texts from Hebrew Scripture through Giambattista Vico in conversation with the philosophy and theory of the early twentieth century.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
Princeton University
Ph.D.
1983
Princeton University
M.A.
1980
Yale University
B.A.
1976
Honors
2015-16
M.H. Abrams Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
2017
Berlin Prize / John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities, American Academy in Berlin
2010-11
Fulbright Senior Scholar (Free University, Berlin, Germany)
2000-01
Nichols Fellow in Humanities and the Public Sphere, UC Irvine
1998-99
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Research Fellowship
1991-92
Alexander von Humboldt Year-Long Research Grant, Tübingen, Germany
Appointments
UC Irvine
1983
Professor
he Warburg Institute, London (UK)
2019
Visiting Senior Scholar
Princeton University
2018
Visiting Professor
Zentrum für Kultur- und Literaturforschung (Center for Cultural and Literary Studies), Berlin, Germany
2011
Visiting Scholar
The Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Free University, Berlin, Germany
2010
Visiting Faculty
UC Berkeley
2008
Visiting Professor