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Dr. Rebecca Newby is an Assistant Professor (Teaching & Scholarship) in English (Academic Writing) and Associate Director of Global Experience at Northeastern University London. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Cardiff University (2020), alongside MA (2014) and BA (2013) degrees in the same field from the same institution. Her research focuses on medieval narrative structures, particularly in English and French romance poetry, with specialties in Chrétien de Troyes and Geoffrey Chaucer. She is currently revising her doctoral thesis on 'The Ends of Romance in Chrétien and Chaucer' for publication and preparing a paper for the 2023 International Courtly Society Congress. Dr. Newby is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of The International Arthurian Society.
Her teaching includes First-Year Writing Studio and Cultures of London courses at Northeastern London, alongside prior roles teaching medieval literature, Victorian novels, and 20th-century British poetry at Cardiff University. She is passionate about humanities education and academic writing pedagogy.
- Research Interests: Medieval narrative closure, Arthurian legend, Victorian medievalism, experimental postmodern poetry
- Professional Roles: Assistant Editor of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840
