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Pericles Lewis | |
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| Dean of Yale College | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Marvin Chun |
| 1st President of Yale-NUS College | |
| In office July 1,2012 –July 1,2017 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Tan Tai Yong |
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| Born | September 13,1968 Canada |
| Education | McGill University (BA) Stanford University (MA,PhD) |
Pericles Lewis (born September 13,1968) is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of comparative literature at Yale University [1] and the Dean of Yale College. [2] [3]
Previously at Yale,he was the founding president of Yale-NUS College,a liberal arts college in Singapore that was jointly governed by Yale and the National University of Singapore, [4] [5] as well as vice president for global strategy and vice provost for academic initiatives. [6] [7]
Lewis was born in Canada on September 13,1968. [8] He is the grandson of Canadian Member of Parliament Andrew Brewin. He attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools and received his bachelor's degree in English literature from McGill University in 1990. He received the degree of A.M. in comparative literature in 1991 and his Ph.D.,also in comparative literature,in 1997 from Stanford University,where his dissertation supervisor was Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. [4] [9] He travelled extensively in Asia as a young man. [10]
He is married to Sheila N. Hayre,clinical professor of law at Quinnipiac University.
Lewis was appointed assistant professor at Yale in the departments of English and comparative literature in 1998,promoted to associate professor there in 2002,and full professor in 2007. [11] He was director of undergraduate studies for the Yale literature major from 2000 to 2006,and director of graduate studies of Yale's Comparative Literature Department from 2006 to 2010. He was the recipient of the McGill Graduates' Society Award for Student Service (1990),a Whiting Fellowship (1997),the Heyman Prize (2000),a Morse Fellowship (2001),and the Yale Graduate Mentor Award (2004). As a scholar,he is best known for his books Modernism,Nationalism,and the Novel,The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism and Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel. [4] He is also an editor of the third,fourth,and fifth editions of the widely used Norton Anthology of World Literature (2012;2018;2024) [12] He was named Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature in 2019. [13]
He was the project director of the Yale Modernism Lab,a website for "collaborative research into the roots of literary modernism". [14] [15] He also serves on the editorial board of Modernism/Modernity.
As Yale's vice president for global strategy from 2017 to 2022,he was involved in planning the launches of the Yale Jackson School for Global Affairs,the Yale Institute for Global Health and the Yale Schwarzman Center. [16]
He became the dean of Yale College on July 1,2022. [17] As Dean,he revised Yale's policies on student leaves of absence for mental health, [18] recruited a number of heads and deans for Yale's residential colleges, [19] and opened an Office of Educational Opportunity. [20] In his first-year address in 2022,he spoke about Conversation. [21] His second first-year address,in 2023,focused on Community. [22] [23] He launched the dean’s dialogue series to encourage civil discourse on difficult topics,including national politics and the conflict in the Middle East. [24] During the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses,Lewis briefly received backlash for alleging that protestors at Yale were "non-Yale [individuals] with a known history of violent confrontation with police" which protest organizers called "racist and classist against New Haveners." [25] Lewis later recanted his statement. [25]
He was appointed President of Yale-NUS,a liberal arts college affiliated with both Yale and the National University of Singapore,by a joint search committee;the appointment was announced on May 30,2012,effective July 1,2012. [4] [26] Before appointment,Lewis was a key planner of the new college's curriculum,and supervised the hiring of core faculty. [4] The College's first students matriculated on July 2,2013,and graduated on May 29,2017. [27] As President,Lewis advocated the concept of residential liberal arts education as "building a community of learning." [28]
Norton Anthology of World Literature New York: Norton, 2012. Ed. Martin Puchner et al.
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