Ahearn,Barry                            

Albrecht,Thomas                        

Burke,Molly                                

Codr,Dwight                           

Cooley,Peter                                   

Desai,Gaurav                                      

Dinerstein,Joel                             

Edmonds,Dale                                   

Elmwood,Victoria                    Foster,Ken                                

Foy,Roslyn                             

Gelley,Ora                                         

Goldman,Jonathan                                   Johnson,T.R.                                                       Kaufmann,David        

Koritz,Amy                                            

Kuczynski,Michael                             

Leland,Jacob                                       

Letter,Joe                                          

Lewis,Nghana                                   

Livingston,Judith                          

Mark,Rebecca                                    

Morris,Paula                                         

Munkhoff,Richelle                              

Nair,Supriya                                        

Oldman,Elizabeth                                     

Pizer,Donald                                        

Rothenberg,Molly       

Smith,Felipe                                          

Snare,Gerald                                        

Toulouse,Teresa                         

Travis,Molly           

  Nghana Lewis

Assistant Professor of English

Norman Mayer Room 108

Telephone: (504) 862-8179

Fax: (504) 862-8958

Email: nlewis2@tulane.edu

Nghana Lewis holds a joint position in English and African & African Diaspora Studies at Tulane.  Her areas of expertise include 19th and 20th Century American Literature; African American Expressive Culture, broadly conceived; Law and Education; and Critical Race Theory.  She is the Founder and Executive Director of the ESSENCE Program, a 501c3 not-for-profit organization that develops K-12 curriculum centered on local culture.  Currently, Dr. Lewis is completing a book-length study of the disconnect between the force of legal precedent in resolving issues of race and racial identity and humanist approaches to racial analysis.  She is also developing an interventionist model for filling gaps in minority youths' understanding of the relationships between hip hop culture and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.