Lance Newman served as Dean of the Westminster College of Arts and Sciences for eight years. He teaches classes in English and American Literature and Creative Writing. He is the author of The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement: Landscapes of Revolution in Transatlantic Romanticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), The Grand Canyon Reader (UC Press, 2013), Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and the editor of several textbooks and collections of scholarly essays. His scholarly articles have appeared in American Literature, New England Quarterly, ISLE, Reconstruction, Electronic Book Review, and other journals. His poems have appeared in many print and web magazines, as well as in four books and chapbooks: Proverbs of Earth (2025), Satellite View (2025), 3by3by3 (2010), and Come Kanab (2007).