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Dr.
Lewis' Research
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Dr.
Thabiti Lewis
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. in English, Saint Louis University, 2001
M.A.T. in English Education, University of Rochester, 1991
B.A. in English, University of Rochester, 1990
B.A. in History with Honors, University of Rochester, 1990
Office: Eaton Hall 201
Phone: (503) 370-6233 or (503) 530-9019
Email: lewist@willamette.edu |
PUBLICATIONS
"Frederick Douglass,
Haiti and Chicago." The Frederick Douglass Encyclopedia,
ed(s). Conyers, Dawson, and Thompson, Greenwood Press (2003).
"Nationalism and Feminism
in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara." SORAC Journal. Fall 2002.
"Looking for Jackie,
Looking for Mike: Race, Sport and Contemporary American Culture."
Blacks and Whites Meeting in America: Eighteen Views of Race Edited
by Robert White. Jefferson, NC:McFarland (2002): 126-138.
"Raising Sula: Daughters
of the 21st Century." The Sibling Society. Edited by Terry
White. University Press of America (2000).
"Poetry in Motion:
An Interview with Quincy Troupe." The Gaither Reporter,
4.2 (Nov./Dec. 1998): 6-9.
Book Reviews:
"Challenges Facing
a New Generation," Review of The Hip-Hop Generation: The
Crisis in African-American Culture by Bakari Kitwana,
The Gaither Reporter, (Summer, 2003).
Review of Turning
South, Again by Houston A. Baker. Mosaic Literary Magazine,
(February 2002).
"Reclaiming Lost
Spirits," Review of Those Bones Are Not My Child, by
Toni Cade Bambara. The Gaither Reporter, vol. 4.7 (Nov./Dec.
2000).
Review of Pryor
Convictions and Other Life Sentences, by Richard Pryor.
The Source (June 1996): 24.
Review of What's
Going On: Personal Essays, by Nathan McCall. St. Louis
American, November 19-25, 1997, B1.
Review of Mike
Tyson: Money, Myth and Betrayal, by Montieth Illingworth.
Black Books Bulletin: Words Work, 1.5 (Spring 1992):
12.
"Memory Faded White,"
Review of All-Bright Court, by Connie Porter. Black
Book Bulletin: Words Work, 1.3 (December 1991): 12.
CONFERENCE
PAPERS
"Revisioning the
Black Aesthetic," presented at the CLA conference, April 2003,
Washington, D.C.
"Homeplace in Ellison's
Invisible Man and Morrison's Song of Solomon," presented at
MELUS 2003, Boca Raton, FL, April 2003.
"Teaching Toni Cade
Bambara, Teaching Spirituals, and Teaching Wholeness in Explorations
of African American Culture," presented at MELUS 2002 Conference,
Seattle, WA, April 2002.
"What Do I Know,
I Just Got Here Myself? Advice from a New Assistant Professor,"
presented at MELUS 2002 Conference, Seattle, WA, April 2002.
"Looking for Jackie
and Mike: Race, Sports and Contemporary American Culture," presented
at National Association of African American Studies, 2002 National
Conference, Houston, TX, February 2002.
"African American
Detective Fiction and Modern Protest: The Struggle for Justice
in the Work of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley," presented at
National Association of African American Studies, 2002 National
Conference, Houston, TX, February 2002.
Chair, "Reading African-American
Literature," at Twentieth-Century Literature Conference 2002,
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 2002.
"Feminism and Nationalism
in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara," presented at Montclair
State University, Black Thoughts and Movements in World History
Conference, Montclair, NJ, April 2000.
"Raising Sula: Daughters
of the 21st Century," presented at The Kent State University,
Robert Bly Colloquium, Ashtabula, OH, September 1999.
PRESENTATIONS/LECTURES
"Race and Sports
in American Culture," presented at Willamette University as
part of the African American Lecture Series, Salem, OR, May
2003.
"Performing Identity
in Spike Lee's Bamboozled," Willamette University, Salem, OR,
February 2002.
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