Professor of English and Director of Linguistics
Professor of Black World Studies
Professor of Women’s Studies

382 Bachelor Hall
Oxford Campus
513-529-6508
etterlg@MiamiOH.edu

Education

• PhD in Linguistics, University of Michigan
• MA in Literature, University of Dayton
• BA in Literature, Jackson State University

Teaching Interests

• Introduction to Linguistics
• Structure of the English Language
• Varieties of English
• African Literature
• Introduction to Women’s Studies
• Black Feminist Theory
• Feminism in the Diaspora
• African Women Writers

Research Interests

• African-American Women in the 1920s
• Contemporary African Women'’s Studies
• Leadership and Education in African Cultures
• Oral Narratives

Selected Publications

• Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn and Richard Thomas, eds. Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Bahá’is in North America, 1898-2000. Baha'i Pub, 2006. Print. 

• Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn and Michele Foster, eds. Unrelated Kin: Race and Gender in Women's Personal Narratives. Routledge, 1995. Print.

• Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn. My Soul Is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the Professions. Routledge, 1993. Print. 

Community Service

Co-Founder and Director of Project R.E.A.C.H., a college readiness program for under-served high school students in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan area.