Professor of English
B.A. Ohio State
M.A., Ph D. Harvard
Office: Chambers 3152 Ext: 2257
email: Cynthia Lewis
Curriculum Vitae
All About Cynthia Lewis' Nonfiction Writing
Cynthia Lewis began teaching at Davidson in 1980, serving today as
Dana Professor of English. Her primary academic pursuits include British Renaissance literature and creative nonfiction writing.
Professor Lewis' Shakespeare courses emphasize dramatic performance and its history, encouraging students to participate in acting and research, as well as reading and discussing. Every second or third year, she teaches "Performing Shakespeare," in which fifteen students mount a full-scale production of a play from the ground up. Her book, Particular Saints: Shakespeare's Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their Plays, was published in 1997 and speaks to her abiding interests in stage history and the interdisciplinary study of early modern drama through church and art history.
Professor Lewis also teaches creative nonfiction writing and publishes nonfiction on such diverse topics as serial bomber Eric Rudolph, premeditated spousal murder, American women bodybuilders, and her tongue-in-cheek role as a member of the Davidson Bikini Team.
Courses recently taught:
- English Composition I - "True Crime"
- Intermediate Composition
- Writing Nonfiction
- British Literature from the Middle Ages to 1660
- Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s Contemporaries
- Performing Shakespeare
- Shakespeare & History; other Shakespeare seminars
- ENG 401, Writing about Travel
Courses for Fall 2009
ENG 220, Literary Analysis
ENG 301, Writing Nonfiction
ENG 352, Shakespeare
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