1980: Dr. Cynthia Lewis Arrives at Davidson

Title: 1980: Dr. Cynthia Lewis Arrives at Davidson
Description: In 1980, Dr. Cynthia Lewis joins the English faculty, offering courses in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and taking on the course Advanced Composition, which had moved away from its original 1914 version and become more focused on analytical writing. However, under the direction of Dr. Lewis and eventually Dr. Shireen Campbell, this course moves back into the creative realm, incorporating new forms of creative nonfiction including memoir and literary journalism in the 1990s. Dr. Lewis has published many articles on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and a book entitled Particular Saints: Shakespeare’s Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their Plays. She has also written and published researched and reported nonfiction on topics ranging from female bodybuilders to local murder mysteries.
Date: August 1980