Tom Lewis

Professor

B.A., University of New Brunswick (Canada)
M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia University

Office:  Palamountain 326
Phone: (518) 580-5172
Email: tlewis@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Biography
• Modern British and American Literature (Poetry and Prose)
• Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
• Literature and Technology
• Documentary Filmmaking
• Classical Literature in Translation

Courses Taught:

• SSP 100:  The Hudson River
• EN 105H:  Documentary Film Writing
• EN 229:    Writing Lives/Writing Lies
• EN 229:    Literature of the Civil War
• EN 322:    American Transformations
• EN 363:    Literature and Landscape
• EN 375:    Ulysses 

Publications: 

• Letters of Hart Crane and His Family (Columbia UP, 1974)
• Empire of the Air (Harper Collins/Burlingame Books,1991)
• Divided Highways (Viking Books,1997)
• The Hudson: a History (Yale, 2005)

Selected documentary films (researcher, writer, or producer): 

• Brooklyn Bridge
• The Shakers (1985)
• Empire of the Air (1992)
• Divided Highways (1997)
• Radio productions for National Public Radio and Public Radio International