[1] His previous appointment was as Jane and Rowland Blumberg Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught in the English Department, the Committee on Comparative Literature, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, and the Program in Jewish Studies.
More recently, he has held appointments as distinguished visiting professor at Emory University and Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia.
While at Harvard, his book, Narrative ethics, "sought a bridge between the disciplines of ethical philosophy and literary studies by proposing a new way to think about the moral realms of risk and responsibility as problems of reading.
[4] His publications in the fields of literary studies, philosophy, and religion include six monographs, an edited volume, and a body of critical articles.
Newton married Miriam Udel in 2011, who had read his book Narrative ethics twice, years before meeting him.