School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Academic Staff

Reina Lewis

Position: Senior Lecturer: course tutor, MA Media Studies

Statement | Teaching | Research and publications | Shortform CV |

All publications post 2001:

Book chapters

• 2003 'Preface', in Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art , David A. Bailey and Gilane Tawadros (eds), London: inIVA, pp.2, 1-899846-35-2 (Institute of International Visual Arts) and MIT. (To accompany an international touring exhibition, 2003.)

Journal articles

• 2002 'Feminism and Orientalism', review article Feminist Theory , vol.3, no.2, pp211-219, 1464-7001 (200208).

Edited books

• 2003 Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader , Routledge, Editor, with Sara Mills,pp.754 0-415-94275-6.

Conference papers

• 2003, panel paper, 'Modernising Ottoman Spaces: The Harem, Emancipation and Narratives of Identity', Modernity and Modernism in the Mediterranean World , University of Toronto, Canada.
• 2003 plenary speaker, 'Taking a Turn with Cultures', Feminist Transitions: Social, Cultural and Global , University of Limerick, Ireland.
• 2002, convenor roundtable discussion, 'Selling the Harem: Intervening in Orientalist Representations of Ottoman Women', Middle Eastern Studies Association , Washington DC, USA.  
• 2002, plenary speaker, 'Making a Figure of Herself: Spaces, Bodies and Identities in the Illustrated Travel Writing of Ottoman Woman',   Modern Art and the Mediterranean: Spaces of Modernity, Body Politics and Post-Colonial Identities , Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
• 2002 , 'Race and the Construction of Orientalised Identities', Modern Languages Association , New Orleans, USA.

Research Grants

Awards
2000-2001, Leverhulme Trust, Leverhulme Research Fellowship (one year's funded research leave). Part collaboration with Prof. Nancy Micklewright, Getty Museum, LA, USA, £16,920.

2001-2002, Arts and Humanities Research Board, Research Leave Scheme, one semester, £12,728.

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Key publications pre 2001:

• 1996 Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininityd and Representation , Routledge.
• 1996 Editor, with Peter Horne, Outlooks: Lesbian and and Gay Visual Cultures , Routledge.
• 1999 'On Veiling, Vision and Voyage: Crossss Cultural Dressing and Narratives of Identity', in Interventions , vol.1, no.4.
• 1999 'The Racialization of Female Beauty: Ottoman women Writers' in Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson (eds), Performing the Text/ Performing the Body , Routledge.
• 1997 'Looking Good: The Lesbian Gaze and Fashion Imagery in Gay Lifestyle Magazines', in Feminist Review , no.55, Spring, pp.92-109.

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