Newton E. Key (brief cv)

Selected Publications

• "The Paper Feast in Late-Stuart London: Feast Tickets, Advertisements, Songs, Sermons, and Entertainments." Huntington Library Quarterly. (special issue, forthcoming, March 2022)


• "Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials." In The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart and Early Hanoverian England, eds. Brian Cowan and Scott Sowerby, 135-157. London: Boydell & Brewer, 2021.


• "Mrs. Bedamore through the Keyhole: Privacy, Local Knowledge, and Things Unpublished in Late-Stuart England." Midland History 46, 1 (Jan. 2021): 50-64.


• Dagni Bredesen and Newton Key. "Thinking with Murder: How the Victorians and Edwardians created and used the 1857 Waterloo Bridge Mystery." Victorians Institute Journal. (special issue, "Victorian and Edwardian Mysteries") 47 (2020): 155-177.


• Robert Bucholz and Newton Key. Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History, 3rd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 2009, 2020.


• Mark Hoffman, Jean-Phillipe Cointet, Philip Brandt, Newton Key, and Peter Bearman. "The (Protestant) Bible, the (Printed) Sermon, and the Word(s): The Semantic Structure of the Conformist and Dissenting Bible, 1660-1780." Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 68 (June 2018): 89-103. (American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of Religion's Distinguished Article Award, 2018)


• "The 'Boast of Antiquity': Pulpit Politics Across the Atlantic Archipelago during the Revolution of 1688." Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 83, 3 (Sept. 2014): 618-49.


• "Crowdsourcing the Early Modern Blogosphere." In historyblogosphere: Bloggen in den Geschichtswissenschaften, ed. Peter Haber and Eva Pfanzelter. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2013. [earlier open source peer review version Oct.-Dec. 2012]


• Newton Key and Robert Bucholz, eds. Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 2009 (now revising for 3rd ed.).


• “‘High feeding and Smart drinking’: Associating Hedge-Lane Lords in Exclusion Crisis London.” In Exclusion and Revolution: the worlds of Roger Morrice, 1675-1700, ed. Jason McElligott, 154-73. Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate, 2006.


• Newton E. Key and Joseph P. Ward. "Metropolitan Puritans and the Varieties of Godly Reform in Monmouth." Welsh History Review 22, 4 (Dec. 2005): 646-72 (Version awarded the Nichols Prize for Local History of England and Wales, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, March 2005).


• "Samuel Annesley," "William Assheton," "John Birch," "Sir Job Charlton," "Paul Foley," "Richard Gardiner," "Francis Gregory," "Sir William Gregory," "John Lightfoot," "Adam Littleton." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.


• Newton E. Key and Joseph P. Ward."`Divided into Parties': Exclusion Crisis Origins in Monmouth." English Historical Review 115, 464 (2000): 1159-83.


• Newton E. Key, ed., "Localités/Localities," a special issue of Research and Review 7 (2000). Also, author of "Introduction: Localités and Nationalism as the Vestigial and the Incipient?," 1-7, and "Localités and Early Modern Britain," 71-8, and co-author, with Mark Voss-Hubbard, "A Chronicle of the Coles County Region," 89-100.


• "The Localism of the County Feast in Late-Stuart Political Culture." Huntington Library Quarterly 58, 2 (1996): 211-37.


• "The Political Culture and Political Rhetoric of County Feasts and Feast Sermons, 1654-1714." Journal of British Studies 33, 3 (July 1994): 223-56.


• "Comprehension and the breakdown of consensus in Restoration Herefordshire." In The Politics of Religion in Restoration England, edited by Tim Harris, Paul Seaward, and Mark Goldie, 191-215. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.


• Wordle tag clouds of selected articles

Recent Positions

• July 2016 to June 2021, Director, Faculty Development and Innovation Center (July 2016 to July 2018, Faculty Development Director). Created programming including workshops and webinars; managed advisory committee; created and led new faculty orientation; created and maintained web and lms presence; worked with Center staff; worked with Provost, Deans, and ITS Director on developing faculty; created, developed, and fundraised for affiliated Center for Student Innovation (grants include ATAC [EIU], Charleston Area Community Foundation, and G.E.E.R. Allocation and Grant [IL])
• 1989 to June 2021: Eastern Illinois University (Professor from 2001). Courses (with links for those taught since 2010, unless completely on D2L): Early Modern European Societies and Cultures (graduate seminar), Early Modern Revolutions (graduate seminar), Anglo-American Political Culture, Historiography (graduate seminar), Historical Publishing, Historical Research and Writing, Early Modern England, Modern Britain, Modern Ireland, Europe, Early Modern World, Study Abroad.

Education

• Cornell University: Ph.D. in History, 1989. Dissertation, "Politics beyond Parliament: Unity and Party in the Herefordshire Region during the Restoration Period."
• University of Cambridge: M.Phil. in Social Anthropology, 1981. Thesis, "Crime as Custom: Norfolk Smuggling Organization, 1690-1760."

Recent and Current Professional Activities

• WEB DEVELOPER/WEBMASTER, earlymodernengland blog <http://earlymodernengland.blogspot.com/>, 2006 to present; Localities, Jan. 1996 to May 2017
• COMMITTEE MEMBER, FSI: At the Intersection of Teaching, Learning, and Technology, Steering Committee, Urbana, Aug. 2016 to Aug. 2020; Eastern Illinois University Academic Technology Advisory Committee (and EdTech group), Aug. 2016 to June 2021; Eastern Illinois University Provost's Advisory Group, July 2017 to June 2021.
• BOARD MEMBER, American Friends of the Institute for Historical Research, Nov. 1998 to present (Vice-chair); H-Albion, Editorial Board, Sept. 1993 to present

Selected Talks

• "UDL and ALCs: The Card Game Version" (Making Excellence Inclusive Conference, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, 11 Oct. 2019)
• Zach Newell, Newton Key, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis, CC Wharram, Steve Brantley, "Creating a Cross-disciplinary Hub for Active Student Learning in the EIU Library" (Playful by Design Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4-5 April 2019)
• "Mrs. Bedamore in the Study through the Keyhole: Privacy, Local Knowledge, and National Rhetorics in the First Age of Party," for panel on "Privacy and the Public Gaze in Late-Stuart Britain" (North American Conference on British Studies [NACBS], Denver, 3-5 Nov. 2017)
• "1683: The Revolution That Never Was (But the Two Revolutionary Situations That Were)" (The Bangor Conference on the Restoration 2017: Turning Points in Britain and Ireland, 1658-1715, Bangor, Wales, 25-27 July 2017)
• "Print as Performance?: Dramatizing Group Identity at Feasts in Late-Stuart London" (Seminar 31, "Performance and the Paper Stage, 1640-1695," Shakespeare Association of America Atlanta, 5-8 April 2017)
• "Cut-ups, the Relational Database, and Mapping the Associational Metropolis of late-Stuart London" (Roundtable "Making maps of the past: historical cartography and early modern Britain," NACBS, Washington, DC, 12 Nov. 2016)
• "Competing Conquests and Lineages: Weighing Ancient Constitutions across the Three Kingdoms during the Glorious Revolution" (Writing the History of Britain and Ireland: The Use, Writing, and Reception of History, 1500-1700, Institute of Historical Research, London, 1 October 2016)
• "Digital Participation from Online to the Classroom" (co-presenter, Faculty Summer Institute, Champaign, 27-29 May 2015)
• "D2L and Digital Participation in the Classroom" (co-presenter, Illinois Brightspace Regional User Forum, Chicago, 21 Nov. 2014)
• "Constructing Conspiracy: Print, Manuscript, Speech, and Place in State Trials Associated with the Rye House Plot" (Symposium on Rethinking the State Trials, Newberry Library, 10-11 April 2014)
• "Beyond Britons: Anti-popery and Identity in the late-Stuart Anglophone World" (Midwest Conference on British Studies [MWCBS], Chicago, 11-13 Oct. 2013)
• "Swing Jazz: an Introduction" (America's Music, Eastern Illinois, 7 Feb. 2012)
• '"Raising Sedition Rebellion and Ryot / From clubbing to Feast': Mapping Discourse at the Time of the Rye House Plot" (North American Conference on British Studies [NACBS], 18-20 Nov. 2011, Denver)
• "Imagining a Gothic Past in the late-17th-Century Britannic Archipelago" (Midwest Conference on British Studies [MWCBS], 4-6 Nov. 2011, Terre Haute)
• "A Social Topography of Sedition in Restoration London," roundtable on "Court and Anti-court in Restoration London," with Robert Bucholz (Chicago British History Seminar, Newberry Library, 22 April 2011)
• "The Printed Wor(l)d before 1700," Digital Humanities Teaching Talk (Eastern Illinois, 2 March 2011)
• "Going Goth: (Mis)uses of the Medieval Past in 17th-century Britain and 19th-century America" roundtable with Christopher Hanlon (Medieval Studies Program, Eastern Illinois, 20 Oct. 2010)
• "Seditious Talk or Sedition?: The social history of revolutionary situations in Restoration England," invited paper for Honoring David Cressy panel (MWBS, Cleveland, 8-10 Oct. 2010)
• "Courting the Crowd: Patrician-Plebeian Interactions in Restoration London Political Culture" (Restoration London Conference, Institute of Historical Research, 22-23 Sept. 2010)

Selected Fellowships and Awards

• EIU Lawrence A. Ringenberg Award, 2021
• EIU Distinguished Faculty Award, 2019
• Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship, Dec. 2015 to Feb. 2016
• EIU Rodney S. Ranes Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, 2013
• EIU Achievement and Contribution Faculty Awards, Research (2009, 2004), Balanced (Teaching, Research, Service, 2000), Teaching (2011, 1997)
• Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship, April 2008
• William Andrews Clark Library Fellowship, Jan. 2008
• Nichols Prize for Local History of England and Wales, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, March 2005
• Newberry Library Short-term Fellowship, July 2004

Selected Reviews

In Albion: 24, 2 (1992): 328-9; 24, 4 (1992): 653-5; 30, 2 (1998): 306-7.

In Archives: 34, 122 (April 2010).

In Church History: 65, 2 (1996): 283-5; 67, 1 (1998): 171-2.

In Clio: 29, 1 (1999): 107-11.

In Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography: n.s. 17 (1991/1999), 1:103-4; 22-24 (1996-98/2004), 1:347-8.

On H-ALBION: (Nov. 27, 1995).

In Historian: 54, 3 (1992): 530-1; 55, 2 (1993): 338-40; 55, 4 (1993): 738-9; 56, 4 (1994): 811-2; 59, 1 (1996): 193-4; 62, 4 (2000): 937-8; 64, 3-4 (2002); 65, 6 (2004): 1453-4.

In History: Reviews of New Books: 19, 4 (1991): 159-60; 20, 4 (1992): 155; 21, 1 (1992): 20; 21, 2 (1993): 92; 23, 1 (1994): 20-1; 26, 1 (1997): 21; 27, 2 (1999): 51-2 (feature review); 28, 4 (2000): 158-9; 33, 1 (2004): 22; 37, 3 (2009): 113-4; 39, 1 (2011): 18-9.

In Journal of Military History: 64, 4 (2000): 1147-9.

In Journal of Modern History: 84, 3 (2012): 717-8.

In Literature and History: 3rd ser., 11, 2 (2002): 110-3; 3rd ser., 14, 1 (2005): 89-91.

In Locus: 5, 2 (1993): 208-9.

In Midland History: 35, 2 (2010): 279-81.

In SCN: Seventeenth Century News: 56, 3 & 4 (1998): 56-7 & 112-3; 57, 1 & 2 (1999): 97-9; 70, 3 & 4 (2012): 166-71.

In Sixteenth Century Journal: 25, 2 (1994): 430-1; 26, 2 (1995): 398-9; 39, 3 (2008): 879-81.

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