Ian Newman

Ian Newman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame, affiliated with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He holds a B.A. from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. from UCLA. His research explores 18th- and 19th-century British and Irish literature, with a focus on sociability, radicalism, song, ballads, and urban spaces.

Education:

• Ph.D. in English, University of California Los Angeles (2013)
• M.A. in English, University of California Los Angeles (2009)
• B.A. (Hons) in English, University of Cambridge (1998)

Research Interests:

• 18th- and 19th-century British and Irish literature
• Sociability, radicalism, and urban spaces
• Balladry, theatre history, and London’s cultural history

His work analyzes the interplay between literature, politics, and music in historical contexts, including projects on tavern culture and the transmission of popular songs.

Key Contributions:

• Author of The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2019)
• Co-editor of Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture (Oxford UP, 2018) and Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London (Liverpool UP, 2022)
• Founder of the Keats Letters Project and the Francis Place Ballad Project

Awards:

• National Humanities Center Resident Associate (2016–17)
• King’s College London Visiting Scholar (2014)
• William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Fellowship (2013)

Advising and Grants:

• Directed undergraduate theses on topics ranging from Jane Austen’s London to William Blake’s religious poetry
• Supervised Ph.D. students on projects such as Enabling Fictions: The Prose Fictions of Early 18th-Century Women Writers
• Recipient of multiple research fellowships and grants for projects on music, sociability, and urban history

Labs/Teams:

• Board member of the Nineteenth-Century Song Collective
• Co-organizer of conferences on topics like Breaking Into Song and Charles Macklin and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Theatre