Carol E. Newell

Biography

Carol Newell joined New York University Stern School of Business in 2008 as an Adjunct Professor. She teaches courses in the undergraduate Social Impact Core at Stern, including Business and Its Publics and Professional Responsibility and Leadership.

Prior to teaching at Stern, Professor Newell was a Lawrence C. Gallen Fellow in Villanova University's Center for Liberal Education (VCLE). There she taught the Augustine and Culture Seminars, "Traditions in Conversation from Antiquity through the Renaissance" and "Modernity and Its Discontents," and served as the leader of the VCLE's Environmental Learning Community.

Professor Newell graduated cum laude from Amherst College with a B.A. in English and Southern Studies, studied West Indian literature and history at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus in Barbados on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. in English from Emory University in post-Civil War American literature, particularly focusing on literature of the U.S. South, African American literature, and Modernism. She continues to pursue research on ecology in southern literature and Modernism in the American South. She also works as a freelance editor for McGraw-Hill Higher Education Division.

Courses Taught

• Business & Its Publics
• Professional Responsibility & Leadership
• Social Impact Core

Academic Background

B.A., English and Southern Studies
Amherst College

West Indian literature and history
University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus in Barbados

Ph.D., English
Emory University