Heidi R. Lewis
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| Born | September 15, 1981 Alliance, OH, United States |
| Education | B.A., English, Robert Morris University (2003)
M.A., English Literature, Ohio University (2005) Ph.D., American Studies, Purdue University (2011) |
| Website | heidirlewis |
Heidi R. Lewis is an American scholar of feminist theory and politics with an emphasis on Black Feminism, as well as Hip Hop with an emphasis on Rap. She is the David & Lucile Packard Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College, Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies in Gender & Women's Studies, and the 22nd President of the National Women's Studies Association.
Colorado College
[edit]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.[1] 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.[2]
Books
[edit]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.[3]
As of February 2025[update], Lewis is preparing for the publication of Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap "Crisis" (Oxford University Press, 2025). In this book, she argues against critics of mumble rap to declare that mumble rap is real Hip Hop.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Heidi R. Lewis · Colorado College". www.coloradocollege.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ Bönkost, Jule, ed. (2019). Unteilbar: Bündnisse gegen Rassismus (1. Auflage ed.). Münster: Unrast. ISBN 978-3-89771-251-5.
- ^ "In Audre's Footsteps". edition assemblage (in German). Retrieved 2024-03-27.
- ^ "Heidi R. Lewis · Colorado College". www.coloradocollege.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
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