Rate My Professor Alexandra Lewis

Dr Alexandra Lewis is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia, a position she has held since 2019. Prior to this, she was Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, serving also as Director of the Centre for the Novel and Undergraduate Programme Coordinator of Creative Writing. Lewis has taught, supervised students, and held research fellowships at the Universities of Cambridge, Goldsmiths College London, the School of Advanced Study London, and Warwick. She completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Cambridge with funding from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust award and Trinity College research scholarship. Earlier, she graduated with a BA (Hons) Class I from the University of Sydney, earning University Medallist honors.

Lewis's research interests include Victorian literature and culture, the Brontës and George Eliot, literature and science from 1800 to present, history of medicine, psychology and emotions, trauma narratives from the nineteenth century to today, neo-Victorian fiction, memory studies, creative writing, fiction, short fiction, Australian literature, life writing, travel writing, and twentieth-century women’s writing. Notable publications feature the Norton Critical Edition of Wuthering Heights (2019), editor of The Brontës and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and co-editor of special issues 'Water' (Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 2023) and 'Water #2' (2024). Her creative works appear in Causeway/Cabhsair, The Interpreter's House, Waymaking, Victorians, Axon, and Southerly. She has contributed to public discourse as an invited panellist on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, delivered Brontë bicentenary lectures in Cairo and Athens, and led the Writing and Wellness Retreat at Haworth. Lewis was co-investigator on the Royal Society of Edinburgh grant ‘Women, Science, Narrative’ and has supervised funded PhDs via the Aberdeen-Curtin Alliance. She holds positions on the Advisory Board of COVE and Executive Committees of BAVS and AVSA.