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Kathleen (Kate) Newell

Executive Dean, Academic Services

Education

  • Ph.D., English, University of Delaware
  • M.A., English, University of Delaware
  • B.A., English, Temple University

Credentials

  • Executive Dean, Academic Services, July 2024–present
    Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Library Services, Oct. 2018–June 2025
    Interim dean, Library Services, July 2018–Oct. 2018
    Chair, Liberal Arts, June 2017–July 2018
    Professor, liberal arts, Sept. 2012–June 2017
    Program coordinator, Sept. 2010–Sept. 2012
    Professor, liberal arts, Sept. 2006–Sept. 2010, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Graduate assistant, Department of English, 1999–2004
    Graduate assistant, Women's Affairs, 2004–05, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
  • Editorial assistant, 2004–05, University of Delaware Press, Newark, DE

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Presidential Fellowship Award, "Adaptation, Place, and the Construction of the Literary," Savannah College of Art and Design, 2017
  • Faculty Sabbatical Award, "Dialogical Relationships in Illustration and Film Adaptation Theory," Savannah College of Art and Design, 2014
  • Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Humanities, 2006
  • Writing Program Award, distinguished teaching, University of Delaware, 2003

Organizations

  • Association for Adaptation Studies
  • International Society for Intermedial Studies
  • Literature/Film Association
  • South Atlantic Modern Language Association

Publications and presentations

Book publications

  • Expanding Adaptation Networks: From Illustration to Novelization. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Chapters and articles

  • "Adaptation and Scandal in The Goldfinch." Edited by Thomas Leitch. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022.
  • "Illustration and Adaptation in the Balbussos' Pride and Prejudice (2013) and The Handmaid's Tale (2012)." In Illustration, Adaptation, and Intermediality: New Cartographies, edited by Sophie Aymes and Shannon Wells-Lassagne. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022.
  • "Transferring Handmaids: Iconography, Adaptation, and Intermediality." In Beyond Media Borders: Intermedial Relations Among Multimodal Media, Volume 2, edited by Lars Elleström, 33–57. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
  • "Illustration, Adaptation and the Development of Frankenstein's Visual Lexicon." In Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture, eds. Dennis Cutchins and Dennis Perry, 239–258. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
  • "Adaptation and Illustration: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach." In Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies, ed. Thomas Leitch, 477–493. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017).
  • "'You don't know about me without you have read a book': Authenticity in Adaptations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Literature/Film Quarterly 41, no.4 (2013): 303-16.
  • "'We're off to see the Wizard' (Again): Oz Adaptations and the Matter of Fidelity." In New Approaches to Adaptation Studies, eds. Christa Albrecht-Crane and Dennis Cutchins, 78–96. Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.

Presentations

  • "Adaptation and Sound." Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, virtual convocation, Nov. 2021.
  • "From 'Excessive Faithfulness' to 'General Failure': (Not So) Scandalous Adaptation in/of The Goldfinch." Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, virtual convocation, Nov. 2020.
  • "Harlot, Harbinger, Heroine: Reading Red in Adaptations of The Handmaid's Tale." Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2019.
  • "Illustration and Intermediality." Presented at Illustration and Adaptation Conference, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France, Oct. 2019.
  • "Adapting Place / Placing Adaptation: Literary Tourism and the Practice of Presence." Presented at Literature/Film Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2018.
  • "'A Savannah Story': Adaptation, Tourism, and The Garden of Good and Evil." Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Birmingham, AL, Nov. 2018.
  • "Adapting Borders: Ekphrasis and Illustration." Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2017.
  • "Like an Open Book: Adaptation in Contemporary Art." Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Jacksonville, FL, Nov. 2016.
  • "Pop-up Adaptation." Presented at Literature/Film Association Annual Conference, Glassboro, NJ, Oct. 2016.
  • "Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Adapting Adaptation to Fit the Times." Keynote address presented at Annual Southland Graduate Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Jun. 2016.
  • "Ekphrasis, Mimicry, and Adaptation in Gary Wolf's Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Durham, NC, Nov. 2015.
  • "'It Wasn't Like That in the Movie': Adaptation and Novelization." Presented at Literature/Film Association Annual Conference, York, PA, Oct. 2015.
  • "Adaptation, Cartography and the 'Map-Of-A-Book' Calendar Club." Presented at Association of Adaptation Studies Conference 9th Annual Conference, St. Augustine, FL, Sept. 2014.
  • "Adaptation and Repurposing in Frankenstein Illustrations." Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2013.
  • "Adaptation and the Visual Lexicon: Illustration and Graphic Adaptations of Frankenstein." Presented at Literature/Film Association Annual Conference, Lawrence, KS, Oct. 2013.
  • "'But I'm really a size 2': Consumer Review Culture and the Maternal Body." Presented at Popular Culture & American Culture Association Conference, Washington, D.C., Mar. 2013.
  • "'Ineffaceable Impressions and Adaptive Influence in Daisy Miller." Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Durham, NC, Nov. 2012.
  • "Adaptations, Transformations, and Manipulations: Or, the Games Media Play." Presented at Border Visions: Borderlands in Film and Literature Conference, New Britain, CT, Oct. 2011.
  • "'I been there before': Authenticity and Intertextuality in Adaptations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Presented at Literature/Film Association Annual Conference, Carlisle, PA, Oct. 2009.
  • "Passing 'Toons, Speech Balloons, and the Framing of Roger Rabbit." Presented at Association of Literature on Screen Studies, 3rd Annual Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sept. 2008.