Michael J. Lewis
Biography
Michael J. Lewis has taught American art and architecture at Williams College since 1993. After receiving his B.A. from Haverford College in 1980, and two years at the University of Hannover Germany, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He has taught at Bryn Mawr College; McGill University, Montreal; and the University of Natal, South Africa. A critic of architecture, he writes for a wide variety of publications. He is the author of, among others, Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind (2001), The Gothic Revival (2002), American Art and Architecture (2006), and the prize-winning August Reichensperger: The Politics of the German Gothic Revival (1993). His research interests include architectural theory; utopian and communal societies; and the nature of creativity. In 2008 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to support the completion of City of Refuge: the Other Utopia, a study of millennial town planning. Lewis was named Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art in 2008.
Hitchcock Articles
- Commentary (2009) - Alfred Hitchcock: is he overrated or underrated
- Academic Questions (2010) - The Canonical Alfred Hitchcock
