Heidi R. Lewis

Heidi R. Lewis is an American scholar of feminist theory and politics with an emphasis on Black Feminism.

She is the David & Lucile Packard Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College, and president of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA).

After graduating from Alliance High School in 1999, Lewis earned a B.A. in English Studies from Robert Morris University in 2003.

While pursuing her doctorate, she also earned a certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Purdue in 2008 and another in Online Teaching & Learning from Ivy Tech Community College the same year.

In 2010, Lewis earned a dissertation fellowship in Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College through the Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD).

She served as Director of Feminist & Gender Studies department chair from 2016-22 AY, including terms as Interim and Associate Director.

She regularly teaches Introduction to Feminist & Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Media Studies, Black Feminist Theory, Hip Hop and Feminism, and the department’s first study abroad course, Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies in Berlin.

Her first book, In Audre’s Footsteps: Transnational Kitchen Table Talk (edition assemblage, 2021), co-edited with Dana Asbury and Jazlyn Andrews, is the 7th volume in the Witnessed Series, an English-language book series about Black writers who have lived in Germany.

Lewis published Expertise, the second volume of Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies, edited by Catherine M. Orr and Ann M. Braithwaite.

After serving as Visiting Assistant Professor the following year, she entered the tenure-track and then earned tenure in 2018 during the 2017-18 AY.