Book Projects
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Lewis, M. (2022). Intersex Justice Pedagogy: A Decolonial and Intersectional Teaching and Learning Praxis. Transgender Studies Quarterly 9(2): 255–263.
Lewis, M. (2021). Transformative Arts/Transformative Acts: Black Queer Feminist Art and Design Pedagogy. Artlines: Women’s Caucus for Art Publication. Winter, 4.
Lewis M. (2020) Liberatory Art and Design Education: Engaging Queer of Color Pedagogies for Creative Practice. St. John’s University Humanities Review. Winter 2020, 27-33.
Lewis M. and M. Cooper (2020). The Saviors of Gullah Identity: Teaching Daughters of the Dust and the “Classics” of Black Women Writers. Feminist Formations 32(1) 216-225.
Lewis, M. and S. Miller (2018). How does it feel to be a problem? A conversation between two feminist black queer femme chairs. Feminist Formations, 30(3) 79-90.
Johnson, A., & Lewis, M. (2018). Transcending the acronym, traversing gender: A conversation in the margins of the margins. Women & Language, 41(1).
Lewis, M. and D. C. Hill. (2018). Liberationship: Black Queer Feminist Lovership Pedagogy as Emancipatory Praxis. Pre/Text Special Issue: Queer Rhetorics, Dirtysexy, 24(1-4).
Lewis, M. (2018). Communicating Variations of Blackness: An Intersectional Trans and Intersex Africana Studies Perspective. Communication Teacher, 11(1), 1-8.
Grzanka, P. R., Bhatia, R., Lewis, M. M., Parks, S. L., Woodfork, J., Casiano, M. (2017). Intersectionality, Inc.: A Dialogue on Intersectionality’s Travels and Tribulations. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, & Social Justice/ Études Critiquess Sur Le Genre, La Culture, et La Justice Sociale, Special Issue: What is Intersectional About Intersectionality Now? 38(1), 16-27.
Lewis, M. (2016). A Genuine Article: Intersectionality, Black Lesbian Gender Expression, and the Feminist Pedagogical Project. Journal of Lesbian Studies Special Issue: Identities, Gender Performances & Pedagogical Practices of Black and Brown Lesbian Educators, 1-12.
Lewis, M. (2011). Body of Knowledge: Black Queer Feminist Pedagogy, Praxis, and Embodied Text. Journal of Lesbian Studies 15(1), 49-57.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
Lewis M. and K. Cotten Williams (accepted). Interview: Queer Memory. In M. Mims and S. G. Fullwood (Eds.) The Evidence: Black Archivists Holding Memory (Nomadic Archivists Project).
Lewis M. (2022). Bridge Work Ahead: Women of Color Liberatory Pedagogies, Then and Now. In G. Wilson, J. Acuff, and A. Kraehe (Eds.), A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back. University of Arizona Press. (pp. 267-272)
Lewis, M. (2020). Pedagogical Femme Sensibilities: Teaching Gender and Sexuality Studies Through Queer Affect and Embodiment, In LaFollette, K. and N. Santavicca (Eds.), Queer Approaches: Emotion, Expression, and Communication in the Classroom. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press. (pp. 41-57).
Lewis, M. (2020). A Bridge Across Our Fears: Queer Feminist Intersectional Ethnic Studies as Interdisciplinary Praxis. In L. A. Saraswati and B. Shaw (Eds.), Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader. Oxford University Press.
Lewis, M. (2018). The Vintage Black Glamour Showcase: Developing Media Literacy and Cultural Competency. In H. Kent (Ed.), Teaching Fashion Studies: Exercises and Pedagogies. London: Bloomsbury. (pp. 171-180).
Lewis, M. (2015). Corporeal Presence: Engaging the Black Lesbian Pedagogical Body in Feminist Classrooms and College Communities. In T. Melancon and J. M. Braxton (Eds.), Contemporary Black Female Sexualities. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. (pp. 41-56).
Invited Articles and Book Chapters
Lewis, M. (2016). Pedagogy and the Sista’ Professor: Teaching Black Queer Feminist Studies. In R. Brock, D. Nix-Stevenson, and P. Miller (Eds.), The Critical Black Studies Reader. New York: Peter Lang.
Lewis, M. (2015). Pedagogy and the Sista’ Professor: Teaching Black Queer Feminist Studies. In E. Meiners and T. Quinn (Eds.), Sexualities in Education: A Reader. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2011 (pp. 33-40).
Lewis, M. (2015). Incorporating Transfeminist Perspectives: Women’s Studies and Gender Variance. In M.T. Berger and C. Radeloff (Eds.), Transforming Scholarship: Why Women’s and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. (pp. 45-47).
Poetry
Lewis, M. (in press). Slave Narrative Project 1936-1937 (Revisited 2025). About Place Journal, Black Earth Institute.
Lewis, M. (2022). Thunder Cake. In J. Crews and M. Walsh (Eds.), Queer Nature. Philadelphia, PA: Autumn House Press. (pp. 177-178)
Lewis, M. (2020). Catfish Mardi Gras Queen. In Judd, Bettina (Ed.), Auburn Avenue, Autumn/Winter. Atlanta, GA.
Lewis, M. (2017) We Take On. In Stephanie Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle (Eds.) Serendipity: Black Lesbian Literary Collective. Fall/issue 2.
Op-Ed Article
Lewis, M. (2017). Reading Myself into Existence, Inside Higher Ed, Tuesday, October 31, 2017.
Book and Film Reviews
Lewis, M. and R. Epstein (2012). Review: Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema, by Robert J. Corber and Soldiers’ Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II, by Yvonne Tasker. Feminist Formations. 24(3). (pp. 136-142).
Lewis, M. (2011). Review of A Touch of Greatness, by Leslie Sullivan and Fem Crit: Experimental Works for Educational Environments, by Lisa Hayes, et al. Films for the Feminist Classroom/ Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 3(2).
American Rivers Blogs
OUR FAVORITE RIVER SONGS — A BLACK HISTORY MONTH REPRISE BY DR. MEL MICHELLE LEWIS | FEBRUARY 22, 2022 https://www.americanrivers.org/2022/02/our-favorite-river-songs-a-black-history-month-reprise/
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE: THOUSANDS WITHOUT WATER IN JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI BY DR. MEL MICHELLE LEWIS | SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 https://www.americanrivers.org/2022/09/climate-and-environmental-injustice-thousands-without-water-in-jackson-mississippi/
READING THE WATER BY DR. MEL MICHELLE LEWIS | MARCH 20, 2023 https://www.americanrivers.org/2023/03/reading-the-water/
BLACK HISTORY MONTH RIVER REFLECTIONS: WATER AND WRITERS BY DR. MEL MICHELLE LEWIS | FEBRUARY 23, 2024 https://www.americanrivers.org/2024/02/black-history-month-river-reflections-water-and-writers/
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