Pericles Lewis — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Dean of Yale College since 2022
Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Yale University
Founding president of Yale-NUS College (2012-2017)
Author of three books on the social contexts of modern literature and editor of four books
Primary editor for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries of the fifth edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature
Received Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 1997

Biography

Pericles Lewis is the Dean of Yale College and the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Yale University. He has been teaching at Yale since 1998. In his role as Dean, he is responsible for guiding the curriculum, intellectual life, residential experience, student affairs, and athletic endeavors of the Yale College community, with a goal to ensure Yale offers the world's best undergraduate education.