Christopher S. Lewis (Ph.D., English, The Ohio State University) directs the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards at Ohio University, where he mentors and teaches students as they write about the value of their past experiences, articulate their strengths, and envision future pathways through honors seminars and award application processes. His research and creative interests include inclusive mentorship, literary studies, poetry, and scholar development.

Dr. Lewis’s scholarship on issues of gender, race, and sexuality in U.S. literature can be found in the journals African American Review, Arizona Quarterly, College Literature, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, and Rocky Mountain Review and in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison. His work on the rhetoric of gender in the anti-slavery writing of William Craft, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs received the 2019 Darwin T. Turner Award from African American Review. He has previously taught at Western Kentucky University and Franklin & Marshall College.