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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