Lewis Wynn

Lewis studied for his BA, MPhil, and PhD degrees (in English) at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and spent a year in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard University as a Herchel Smith Scholar. He has since undertaken pre-clinical training in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London, and is shortly due to begin training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the Cambridge Society for Psychotherapy.

Before joining Wadham, Lewis was a Bye-Fellow, College Lecturer (in English and Philosophy), and Director of Studies (in Philosophy) at Downing College, Cambridge, and remains an Affiliated Scholar in Cambridge’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Lewis’ research concerns modern and contemporary literature (especially poetry), psychoanalysis, and modern European philosophy: particularly representations of historical and ecological loss; conceptions of animality; and the politics of landscape.

At Wadham, Lewis is responsible for teaching the following papers: Prelims Paper 1B, Introduction to Literature; FHS Paper 5, English Literature 1760 - 1830; Prelims Paper 3, English Literature 1830-1910; and Prelims Paper 4, English Literature 1910 - Present.