Pericles Lewis was born on September 13,1968 and is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of comparative literature at Yale University and the Dean of Yale College.
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Pericles Lewis is the grandson of Canadian Member of Parliament Andrew Brewin.
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Pericles Lewis attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools and received his bachelor's degree in English literature from McGill University in 1990.
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Pericles Lewis received the degree of AM in comparative literature in 1991 and his Ph.
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Pericles Lewis travelled extensively in Asia as a young man.
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Pericles Lewis is married to Sheila N Hayre, clinical professor of law at Quinnipiac University.
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Pericles Lewis was director of undergraduate studies for the Yale literature major from 2000 to 2006, and director of graduate studies of Yale's Comparative Literature Department from 2006 to 2010.
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Pericles Lewis was the recipient of the McGill Graduates' Society Award for Student Service, a Whiting Fellowship, the Heyman Prize, a Morse Fellowship, and the Yale Graduate Mentor Award.
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Pericles Lewis is an editor of the third, fourth, and fifth editions of the widely used Norton Anthology of World Literature.
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Pericles Lewis was the project director of the Yale Modernism Lab, a website for "collaborative research into the roots of literary modernism".
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Pericles Lewis became the dean of Yale College on July 1,2022.
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Pericles Lewis argued in favor of affirmative action and took steps to maintain diversity at Yale after the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action.
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Pericles Lewis launched the dean's dialogue series to encourage civil discourse on difficult topics, including national politics and the conflict in the Middle East.
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Pericles Lewis was appointed President of Yale-NUS, a liberal arts college affiliated with both Yale and the National University of Singapore, by a joint search committee; the appointment was announced on May 30,2012, effective July 1,2012.