Kaari Newman, Ph.D.

Hello! I am Dr. Kaari Newman. My scholarly interests include transatlantic print and material culture of the long nineteenth century, particularly women's short fiction and other contributions to the nineteenth-century periodical press. My work on Mary Elizabeth Braddon's serialization of Aurora Floyd (1863) appears in The Wilkie Collins Journal, and my forthcoming publications include a material cultural history of the Cook-Simms House in Delaware History and book chapter on the problematic ways fin de siècle farming periodicals of the Midwest cultivated regional, as opposed to national, identities. 

I have written and presented on the work of Mary Shelley, Frances E. W. Harper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Jane Austen, among others. If you really want to get me talking, though, ask me about Victorian aunting or Mary Shelley's fiction after Frankenstein.

Along with my Ph.D., I have a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies. I have extensive archival and curatorial experience working with historic books, manuscripts, photographs, material objects, and print ephemera. My expertise includes:

• Archival processing, arrangement, and description (including DACS and MARC)

• Exhibition curation and development

• Cataloging and collections management

• Professional copywriting/editing and blogging

• Content strategy and website design

• Social media marketing and engagement

• Search engine optimization (SEO)

• Nonprofit development and grant writing

I continue to hone these skills as the Digital Content Manager for the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and as a freelance archival technician and marketing specialist. Whether you need assistance processing your archival backlog or with content marketing, I am ready to help you!