Pericles Lewis

Pericles Lewis is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of comparative literature at Yale University[1] and the Dean of Yale College.[2][3]

Pericles Lewis
Dean of Yale College
Assumed office
July 1, 2022
Preceded byMarvin Chun
Vice president for global strategy and vice provost for academic initiatives of Yale University
In office
2017 – July 1, 2022
1st president of Yale-NUS College
In office
July 1, 2012 – July 1, 2017
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byTan Tai Yong
Personal details
Born (1968-09-13) September 13, 1968
Canada
Alma materMcGill University
Stanford University

Previously at Yale, he was the founding president of Yale-NUS College, a liberal arts college in Singapore that is 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]

Biography

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]

Academic career

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 and fourth editions of the widely used Norton Anthology of World Literature (2012; 2018) [12]

He was the project director of the Yale Modernism Lab, a website for "collaborative research into the roots of literary modernism".[13][14]

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.[15]

He became the dean of Yale College on July 1, 2022.[16] As Dean, he revised Yale's policies on student leaves of absence for mental health,[17] recruited a number of heads and deans for Yale's residential colleges,[18] and opened an Office of Educational Opportunity.[19] He argued in favor of affirmative action and took steps to maintain diversity at Yale after the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action.[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]

Yale-NUS

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][24] 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.[25] As President, Lewis advocated the concept of residential liberal arts education as "building a community of learning."[26]

Publications

Books
  • The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. ISBN 9780521199414
  • Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN
  • The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780521828093.
  • Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 9780521661119
    • Review by Alan Munton; The Modern Language Review, Apr., 2003, vol. 98, no. 2, p. 443-444

Articles
  • “Proust, Woolf, and modern fiction.” Romanic Review 99 (2008): 77–86.
  • “The Reality of the unseen: Shared fictions and religious experience in the ghost stories of Henry James.” Arizona Quarterly 61.2 (Summer 2005): 33–66.
  • “Christopher Newman’s haircloth shirt: worldly asceticism, conversion, and auto-machia in The American.” Studies in the Novel 37 (2005): 308–28.
  • “Churchgoing in the Modern Novel.” Modernism/Modernity 11 (2004): 667–94.
  • “James’s Sick Souls.” Henry James Review 22 (2001): 248–58.
  • “‘His Sympathies were in the Right Place’: Heart of Darkness and the discourse of national character.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 53 (1998): 211-44. (Reprinted in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Modern Critical Interpretations, 2008).
  • “The ‘True’ Homer: myth and enlightenment in Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno." New Vico Studies 10 (1992): 24–35.

Books edited

Norton Anthology of World Literature New York: Norton, 2012. Ed. Martin Puchner et al.

References
  1. Pericles Lewis appointed the Smith Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale News, March 7, 2019
  2. Hodgman, Lucy (25 May 2022). "Pericles Lewis named Dean of Yale College". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  3. "Pericles Lewis named dean of Yale College". YaleNews. 25 May 2022. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  4. Karin Fischer, "Yale Scholar Will Be First President of New Institution in Singapore" The Chronicle of Higher EducationMay 30, 2012
  5. "'Not the job' of Yale-NUS College to tell students what to think" AsiaOne May 30, 2012
  6. Pericles Lewis appointed VP for global strategy and deputy provost for international affairs, Yale News, July 16, 2016
  7. "Crair named vice provost for research; Lewis to oversee Poorvu Center". 18 February 2020.
  8. LC Authority File
  9. Lewis web page at Yale
  10. Ng, Jing Yng. "A People President". Archived from the original on 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  11. "Pericles Lewis".
  12. Norton
  13. "About". The Modernism Lab. Yale University. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  14. "Modernism Lab – Collaborative Research on Literary Modernism".
  15. "Announcement – Dean of Yale College". Office of the President. 2022-05-25. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  16. "Announcement – Dean of Yale College". Office of the President. 2022-05-25. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
  17. Yale changes mental health policies for students in crisis
  18. Crystal Feimster announced as head of Pierson College
  19. New Office at Yale Combines Success Resources, Promotes Access
  20. University announces policy changes following SCOTUS affirmative action ruling
  21. "On Conversation"
  22. In opening assembly, Salovey urges Class of 2027 to "slow down, fix things"
  23. Yale College webpage.
  24. "Yale’s Pericles Lewis to be inaugural Yale-NUS president" Yale News May 30, 2012
  25. Yuen, Sin (29 May 2017). "Nearly two-thirds of Yale-NUS College's pioneer batch of students graduate with job or graduate school offers". The Straits Times.
  26. Lewis, Pericles. "Building a Community of Learning at Yale-NUS".
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