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Office Location: Palamountain Hall, #313
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Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

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DEPARTMENT CHAIR:
Mason Stokes, Associate Professor of English

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Barbara Black, Associate Professor of English

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Mary Wright

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Professor


B.A., University of New Brunswick (Canada)
M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia University

Office:  Palamountain 325
Phone: (518) 580-5172
Email: tlewis@skidmore.edu


Teaching and Research Interests:

  • Biography
  • Modern British and American Literature (Poetry and Prose)
  • Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
  • Literature and Technology
  • Documentary Filmmaking
  • Classical Literature in Translation

Courses Taught:

  • SSP 100:  The Hudson River
  • EN 105H:  Documentary Film Writing
  • EN 229:    Writing Lives/Writing Lies
  • EN 229:    Literature of the Civil War
  • EN 322:    American Transformations
  • EN 363:    Literature and Landscape
  • EN 375:    Ulysses

Publications:

  • Letters of Hart Crane and His Family (Columbia UP, 1974)
  • Empire of the Air (Harper Collins/Burlingame Books,1991)
  • Divided Highways (Viking Books,1997)
  • The Hudson: a History (Yale, 2005)
Selected documentary films (researcher, writer, or producer):
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • The Shakers (1985)
  • Empire of the Air (1992)
  • Divided Highways (1997)
  • Radio productions for National Public Radio and Public Radio International