I am an associate professor in the English Department at Temple University, specializing in English and Scottish literature during what scholars now refer to as the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1832), also serving as Director of Graduate Studies. Having served as President of TAUP from 2017-21, I am also interested in organizing academic labor. I am at work on a book with the working title, _Narratives of Value: What the Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish Romanticism Have to Teach Us About the Value of the Humanities Now._ A version of the chapter on Adam Smith is forthcoming in _English Literary History_. Recently, I edited Allan Ramsay’s _The Gentle Shepherd_ (1725; 1729) the first volume in The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay, which was published by Edinburgh University Press in the Spring of 2022, a project funded by a £1 million grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. I am also directing a Digital Humanities site on _The Beggar’s Opera_ (1728) by John Gay, one of the biggest hits in British eighteenth-century theater and one of the most influential texts in British literature, as well as the source of Brecht and Weill's _Threepenny Opera_ (1928) and other adaptations. Some of my work can be found here: https://temple.academia.edu/SteveNewman.