Heidi R. Lewis

Lewis.jpgHeidi R. Lewis is Director of the Riley Scholars-in-Residence Program and Director and Associate Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies.

Her research primarily focuses on Feminist Theory, Politics, and Discourse (particularly Black Feminism), Hip Hop Culture, and Critical Media Studies. She has published in The Cultural Impact of Kanye West, the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, and Unteilbar: Bündnisse gegen Rassismus. She is the author of forthcoming essays that examine FX's The Shield, VH1's Love & Hip Hop, Bravo's Married to Medicine, and the relationship between "expertise," Women's Studies, and other interdisciplinary fields, as well as an edited collection in Ingeborg Bachmann Prize-winner Sharon Dodua Otoo's Witnessed Series (published by Edition Assemblage) entitled "In Audre's Footsteps: Transnational Feminism and Solidarity," co-edited with Dana Maria Asbury.

She has given talks at Vanderbilt University, Kim Bevill's Gender and the Brain Conference, the University of Georgia, the Educating Children of Color Summit, Cornell University, the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, Portland State University, the U.S. Olympic Committee, the University of Arizona, and the Frauenkreise Projekt and the Kampagne für Opfer Rassistischer Polizeigewalt in Berlin. She has also been a contributor to Mark Anthony Neal's NewBlackMan, NPR's "Here and Now," KOAA news and KRCC in Colorado Springs, Bitch Media, and Act Out.

Learn more by visiting her FemGeniuses website.

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