Pericles Lewis

About

Pericles Lewis is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and a Professor of English at Yale University. He also serves as the Dean of Yale College, where he is responsible for guiding the curriculum, intellectual life, residential experience, and student affairs of the Yale College community, with the goal of ensuring the institution offers the world’s best undergraduate education. Lewis earned his B.A. with first-class honors in English literature from McGill University in 1990 and completed his Ph.D. in comparative literature at Stanford University in 1997. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined Yale’s faculty in 1998 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to full professor in 2007. His research focuses on how developments in literary form emerge from social, political, and existential ferment, with a particular emphasis on modernist writers who revolutionized European literature in the early twentieth century. He has authored three books on the social contexts of modern literature and edited four others. Lewis is also engaged in editing projects, including the fifth edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature, for which he is the primary editor for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He has served on various editorial boards and contributed to prominent publications such as the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Harvard International Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Times…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Law
• Art
• Astronomy
• Forestry
• Philosophy
• Literature
• Aesthetics
• Physics

Selected publications

• Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2010-01-07 · 176 citations

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  The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods to describe through fiction the sorts of experiences that had traditionally been the domain of religious mystics and believers. In Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, Pericles Lewis considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion. Through c…

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• The Cambridge Companion to Modernism

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2011-09-15 · 116 citations

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  This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. This second edition is updated and enhanced with four new chapters, addressing the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music. The catastrop…

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• Globalizing the Liberal Arts: Twenty-First-Century Education

  2018-01-01 · 41 citations

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• The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism

  The Modern Language Review · 2008-07-01 · 29 citations

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• The Norton anthology of Western literature

  W.W. Norton eBooks · 2014-01-01 · 14 citations

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  A completely new editorial team, dozens of new selections and translations, all-new introductions and headnotes, hundreds of illustrations, redesigned maps and timelines, and a completely revamped media program all add up to most exciting, accessible, and teachable version of the Norton ever published.

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Frequent coauthors

• Michael Levenson

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• Oliver Simons

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• Nicolas Standaert

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• Brian K. Burton

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• Elleke Boehmer

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• Michael Bell

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• Jeremy Dauber

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• Rainer Nägele

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Awards & honors

• Graduate Mentor Award (2004)

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