In 2010, Lewis earned a dissertation fellowship in Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College through the Consortium for Faculty Diversity. After serving as Visiting Assistant Professor the following year, she entered the tenure track and earned tenure during the 2017-18 AY.[1] She served as Director of Feminist & Gender Studies 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, Black Feminist Media Studies, Black Feminist Literary Criticism, Hip Hop and Feminism, Hip Hop on Film, Hip Hop & the Law, and the department’s first study abroad course, Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies in Berlin.[2]
Books
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 Sharon Dodua Otoo's Witnessed Series, an English-language book series about Black writers who have lived in Germany.[3]
Recently, Lewis published Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap "Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2025). In this book, she argues Mumble Rap is real Hip Hop.[4]
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