Scott Newstok

Scott Newstok is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment, Rhodes College. He teaches literature of the English Renaissance as well as film, rhetoric, education, lyric poetry, and the humanities. At Rhodes College, Newstok has received the 2012 Campus Life Award for Outstanding Faculty Member; the 2016 Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching; and the 2021 Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity.

Click here to see a list of books by Scott Newstok

Links to posts and programs featuring Scott Newstok:

  • Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 151 — FEATURED GUESTS: Richard Stivers, Holly Ordway, Robin Phillips, Scott Newstok, Junius Johnson, and Peter Mercer-Taylor
  • Healthy habits of mind — Scott Newstok describes how many efforts at educational reform have become obstacles to thinking well, and he offers a rich and evocative witness to a better way of understanding what thinking is. (20 minutes)