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Pericles Lewis Vice President for Global Strategy and Deputy Provost for International Affairs Professor of Comparative Literature Yale University [email protected] EDUCATION Stanford University Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1997 A.M. in Comparative Literature, 1991 McGill University B.A. with first-class honors in English Literature, 1990 CURRENT EMPLOYMENT Yale University Vice President for Global Strategy and Deputy Provost for International Affairs, 2017-present Professor of Comparative Literature, 2017-present Senior Research Fellow, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, 2017-present PRIOR EMPLOYMENT Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore Founding President, 2012-2017 Professor of Humanities, 2012-2017 Yale University Senior Research Scholar, Department of Comparative Literature, 2013-2017 Yale-NUS Fellow, 2012-2013 Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, 2007-2012 Associate Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, 2002-2007 Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, 1998-2002 University of California, Berkeley Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of English, 1996-1998 HONORS AND AWARDS Master of Arts privatim, Yale University 2008 Graduate Mentor Award, Yale University 2004 Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Junior Faculty Member, Yale University 2000 McGill Graduates’ Society Award for Student Service 1990 EXECUTIVE EDUCATION COURSES US College Presidents’ Leadership Seminar Review, Dublin City University, 2015 Harvard Seminar for New Presidents, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), 2013 Institute for Management and Leadership in Education, HGSE, 2012 Pericles Lewis 2 FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Grants from Teagle and Luce Foundations to support conference on curricular design 2015-2016 Grant from Imitatio Foundation to support conference on René Girard 2011-2012 Faculty Research Grant, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies 2011-2012 Paul Moore Memorial Fund Grants for Instructional Innovation, Yale University 2008-2011 John and Yvonne McCredie Fellowship in Instructional Technology, Yale University 2007, 2011-2013 Davis Foundation Electronic Library Initiative Course Support Grant 2005 A. Whitney Griswold Research Grants, Yale University 1999, 2005 Summer Institute in Literary Studies Stipend, National Humanities Center 2003 Frederick W. Hilles Publication Fund Grant, Yale University 2002-2003 Morse Fellowship for Junior Faculty in the Humanities, Yale University 2001-2002 Whitney Humanities Center Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University 2000-2001 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1996-1998 Institute for International Studies Dissertation Grant, Stanford University 1995-1996 Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities 1994-1995 Stanford Humanities Center Doctoral Fellowship 1993-1994 Mellon Foundation/Stanford Center for European Studies Research Grant 1993-1994 PUBLICATIONS SOLE AUTHOR: BOOKS Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Also available in eBook. The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Also available in paperback and eBook. Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. EBook edition 2005; paperback edition 2007. Awarded the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarly work by a junior faculty member in the humanities at Yale University. WORK IN PROGRESS A Liberal Education. Book-length manuscript on the purposes of liberal education, drawing on my experiences in the founding of Yale-NUS College. EDITING Editor. The Norton Anthology of World Literature, third edition. Primarily responsible for volume F, Literature Since 1900, under the general editorship of Martin Puchner. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. Shorter edition 2013. Fourth edition, 2018. Electronic edition 2015: https://digital.wwnorton.com/worldlit3v2. Editor, The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, ninth edition. Primarily responsible for final section, Literature Since 1900, under the general editorship of Martin Puchner. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. Founder and editor. The Modernism Lab, a virtual space for collaborative research on modernism. https://modernism.coursepress.yale.edu/. 2007-2012. Portions now available at http://modernistcommons.ca/articles. Editor. The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pericles Lewis 3 PUBLICATIONS, CONTINUED SOLE AUTHOR: ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS “Christopher Newman’s Haircloth Shirt: Worldly Asceticism, Conversion, and Auto-machia in The American.” Studies in the Novel 37 (2005): 308-28. “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. “Churchgoing in the Modern Novel.” Modernism/Modernity 11 (2004): 667-94. “‘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 Harold Bloom, ed. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House Press, 2008. 51-78. “The ‘True’ Homer: Myth and Enlightenment in Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno.” New Vico Studies 10 (1992): 24-35. SOLE AUTHOR: CHAPTERS OF REFEREED BOOKS “Globalizing the Liberal Arts: Twenty-First Century Education.” Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, ed. Nancy Gleason. Berlin: Springer, 2018. “In Asia, for the World: Liberal Education and Innovation.” Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents, ed. William Kirby and Marijk van der Wende. London: Palgrave, 2016. 47-60. “Modernism and Religion.” The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, second edition, ed. Michael Levenson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 178-96. “Inventing Literary Modernism During the Great War.” London, Modernism and 1914, ed. Michael Walsh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 148-64. “Religion.” A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar and David Bradshaw. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 19-28. “Teaching Theory through ‘Daisy Miller.’” Approaches to Teaching Henry James’s “Daisy Miller” and “The Turn of the Screw.” Ed. Kimberly Reed and Peter Beidler. New York: Modern Language Association, 2005. “Walter Benjamin in the information age? On the limited possibilities for a defetishizing critique of culture.” In Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age. Ed. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Michael Marrinan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. 221-9. “The Conscience of the Race: The Nation as Church of the Modern Age in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Joyce Through the Ages. Ed. Michael P. Gillespie. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. 81-106. Reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce, ed. John Paul Riquelme. New York: Norton, 2007. 451-70. CO-AUTHOR: ARTICLES OR CHAPTERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND BOOKS Emily Hayman and Pericles Lewis, “Can there be a Global Modernism?” in The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature, ed. Mark Nixon and Ulrika Maude. Forthcoming. Pericles Lewis and Katherine Rupp, “Liberal Education in Asia: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities,” New Global Studies 9 (2015): 245-66. (Solicited and refereed). Elyse Graham and Pericles Lewis, “Private Religion, Public Mourning, and Mrs. Dalloway,” Modern Philology 111 (2013): 88-106. SOLE AUTHOR: NON-REFEREED ESSAYS AND OPINION PIECES “Shaping Minds through Liberal Education.” Singapore: Insights from the Inside, vol. 3 (Singapore: Singapore International Foundation, 2018). Foreword, Local Encounters in a Global City: Singapore Stories, ed. Anju Mary Paul (Singapore: Ethos Books, 2017), 6-7. “A Challenging Time for Cosmopolitan Education,” Times Higher Education, February 2, 2017. “The Value of Research in the Social Sciences,” Singapore Straits-Times, January 7, 2017. Pericles Lewis 4 PUBLICATIONS, CONTINUED SOLE AUTHOR: NON-REFEREED ESSAYS AND OPINION PIECES, CONTINUED “Innovation in Higher Education: The Yale-NUS Experience,” Daily Financial Times, Sri Lanka (May 10, 2016): 19. “The Rise of Liberal Arts in Singapore,” EduNation 10 (April 2016): 18-19. “Asia Invests in the Liberal Arts,” Harvard International Review 35.1 (Summer 2013): 36-39. Foreword, Yale-NUS College: A New Community of Learning, by Bryan Garsten, et al. New Haven: Yale University, 2013. “In Asia, Future Looks Bright for Liberal-Arts Education,” WorldWise Blog, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 25, 2012. “Building a Community of Learning,” Singapore Straits-Times, July 7, 2012. “Modernism.” Encyclopedia Americana. 2008. “Proust, Woolf, and Modern Fiction.” Romanic Review 99 (2008): 77-86. “James’s Sick Souls.” Henry James Review 22 (2001): 248-58. “Dracula and the Epistemology of the Victorian Gothic Novel.” In Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow—A Critical Anthology. Ed. Elizabeth Miller. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex: Desert Island Books, 1998. 71-81. SOLE AUTHOR: REVIEWS “You are Without Land, Without Love,” Review of The Dawn Watch by Maya Jasanoff. Los Angeles Review of Books. December 24, 2017. “No Business Like the Supernatural Business,” Review of Supernatural Entertainments by Simone Natale. Los Angeles Review of Books, February 15, 2017. Review of Ethics and Aesthetics