Dr. Lewis is Associate Professor of English and Founding Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her areas of research interest include African American literature of the 19th century and African American women’s writing. She is the author of “Freedom Narratives of African American Women,” wrote the children’s books “Brown All Over,” and “Bold Nia Marie Passes the Test,” and co-authored “Dr. King Is Tired, Too!!” with Mac A. Bowman, M.D. She has written widely on Black womanhood, girlhood and material culture.
