www.davidson.edu Academics English Home Faculty Dr. Cynthia Lewis
Other Faculty: Anthony Abbott Shireen Campbell Suzanne Churchill   Brenda Flanagan Ann M. Fox Gail Gibson Gill Holland Annie Ingram Randy Ingram Zoran Kuzmanovich Cynthia Lewis Scott MacKenzie Paul Miller Elizabeth Mills Randy Nelson Alan Michael Parker   Onita Vaz-Hooper	Office: Chambers 3251 Ext: 2257 Cynthia Lewis began teaching at Davidson in 1980.  In her Renaissance drama classes, including Shakespeare, she stresses performance and its history, encouraging students to participate in acting, as well as reading and discussing.  Every second or third year, she teaches "Performing Shakespeare," in which fifteen students mount a full-scale production of a play from the ground up.  Her book Particular Saints: Shakespeare's Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their Plays, was published in 1997 and speaks to her abiding interests in stage history and the interdisciplinary study of early modern drama through church and art history.  She also teaches creative non-fiction writing and publishes reported non-fiction on such topics as the alleged serial bomber Eric Rudolph and American women bodybuilders. Courses recently taught: English Composition I - "True Crime" Intermediate Composition Writing Non-fiction British Literature from the Middle Ages to 1660 Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Contemporaries Performing Shakespeare Shakespeare & History; other Shakespeare seminars Home | Faculty | The English Major | Course Offerings Writing At Davidson | The Writing Center | Financial Support Honors Program | Film Studies | Study Abroad | Visit the Davidson College Home Page