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Heidi R. Lewis is an American scholar of feminist theory and politics with an emphasis on Black Feminism. She is the David & Lucile Packard Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College [ citation needed], and president of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA).
After graduating from Alliance High School in 1999, Lewis earned a B.A. in English Studies from Robert Morris University in 2003. While pursuing her doctorate, she also earned a certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Purdue in 2008 and another in Online Teaching & Learning from Ivy Tech Community College the same year.
In 2010, Lewis earned a dissertation fellowship in Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College through the Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD). After serving as Visiting Assistant Professor the following year, she entered the tenure-track and then earned tenure in 2018 during the 2017-18 AY. She served as Director of Feminist & Gender Studies department chair from 2016-22 AY, including terms as Interim and Associate Director. She regularly teaches Introduction to Feminist & Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Media Studies, Black Feminist Theory, Hip Hop and Feminism, and the department’s first study abroad course, Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies in Berlin. [1]
Her first book, In Audre’s Footsteps: Transnational Kitchen Table Talk (edition assemblage, 2021), co-edited with Dana Asbury and Jazlyn Andrews, is the 7th volume in the Witnessed Series, an English-language book series about Black writers who have lived in Germany. [2]
Lewis published Expertise, the second volume of Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies, edited by Catherine M. Orr and Ann M. Braithwaite.[ citation needed]
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Heidi R. Lewis is an American scholar of feminist theory and politics with an emphasis on Black Feminism. She is the David & Lucile Packard Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College [ citation needed], and president of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA).
After graduating from Alliance High School in 1999, Lewis earned a B.A. in English Studies from Robert Morris University in 2003. While pursuing her doctorate, she also earned a certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Purdue in 2008 and another in Online Teaching & Learning from Ivy Tech Community College the same year.
In 2010, Lewis earned a dissertation fellowship in Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College through the Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD). After serving as Visiting Assistant Professor the following year, she entered the tenure-track and then earned tenure in 2018 during the 2017-18 AY. She served as Director of Feminist & Gender Studies department chair from 2016-22 AY, including terms as Interim and Associate Director. She regularly teaches Introduction to Feminist & Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Media Studies, Black Feminist Theory, Hip Hop and Feminism, and the department’s first study abroad course, Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies in Berlin. [1]
Her first book, In Audre’s Footsteps: Transnational Kitchen Table Talk (edition assemblage, 2021), co-edited with Dana Asbury and Jazlyn Andrews, is the 7th volume in the Witnessed Series, an English-language book series about Black writers who have lived in Germany. [2]
Lewis published Expertise, the second volume of Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies, edited by Catherine M. Orr and Ann M. Braithwaite.[ citation needed]