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Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London (2022-Present)
Lewis teaches the module 'Questions of Performance: Self' in the Theatre & Performance Department at Goldsmiths. This module examines selfhood and identity in performance and finds ways to create performance through an autobiographical and archival study into the masks we adopt in our lives, influenced by our identities. In addition to this, Lewis lectures on 'Contexts of Practice' and 'Creativity & Culture', which explores community and therapeutic arts across a range of practices. 
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Research Assistant on Staging Decadence (2022)
Lead Researcher: Dr. Adam Alston Staging Decadence is a project plotting ideas of decadence in performance throughout history and how the notion of decadent theatre impacts the cultural sphere of the 21st Century. The project explores what is considered decadent and how this shifts through culture and illuminates aspects of our cultural ideals. Lewis, as assistant, processed data and supported compiling the impact report for this project. Click here for the full website. 
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From 'Man Up' to 'Drag Up': Considering 'Applied Cabaret' to Reimagine Masculinity
2021
As part of their undergraduate thesis, Lewis constructed a practice-led research project that used cabaret practices with a group of cisgender, heterosexual men to examine masculinities in practice and offer new transportive attitudes that aim to destabilise patriarchal ideals of manhood. The research included a detailed contextual analysis of cultural definitions of masculinity and synthesised how playfulness through drag practice could be utilised to provide a new, more positive male image. The research project included a week-long series of workshops where the participants met to creatively examine masculinity and play with camp drag. This research acted as the initial step towards outlining Lewis' concept of 'Applied Cabaret', which uses cabaret processes to examine social issues in participatory contexts.
Lewis gave a 40 minute conference talk about their research in May 2021 for Aberdeen University's 'Consent, Awareness & Sexual Education' Conference. They worked with the Against Sexual Violence team at Goldsmiths, University of London and the Centre for Queer Histories in 2022 to develop this research.
Please do not hesitate to get in contact should you wish to read the research article, book a talk, or discuss workshop provision.
2021
As part of their undergraduate thesis, Lewis constructed a practice-led research project that used cabaret practices with a group of cisgender, heterosexual men to examine masculinities in practice and offer new transportive attitudes that aim to destabilise patriarchal ideals of manhood. The research included a detailed contextual analysis of cultural definitions of masculinity and synthesised how playfulness through drag practice could be utilised to provide a new, more positive male image. The research project included a week-long series of workshops where the participants met to creatively examine masculinity and play with camp drag. This research acted as the initial step towards outlining Lewis' concept of 'Applied Cabaret', which uses cabaret processes to examine social issues in participatory contexts.
Lewis gave a 40 minute conference talk about their research in May 2021 for Aberdeen University's 'Consent, Awareness & Sexual Education' Conference. They worked with the Against Sexual Violence team at Goldsmiths, University of London and the Centre for Queer Histories in 2022 to develop this research.
Please do not hesitate to get in contact should you wish to read the research article, book a talk, or discuss workshop provision.
