Dylan Lewis

Dylan Lewis is a PhD candidate in English Literature and graduate assistant at the UMD BookLab. He also served as a part-time instructor in the UMD Department of Germanic Studies and previously worked as an editorial assistant for Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660–1700. His research focuses on transnational print history, specifically the transmission of English republicanism into 17th- and 18th-century German contexts. Lewis holds a unique interdisciplinary perspective as both a first-generation college student and openly gay scholar.

Education:

• M.A., Languages and Cultures: German Literature, Texas Tech University
• Certificate in Book History and Digital Humanities, Texas Tech University
• B.A., English and German, Texas Tech University

He has presented at major institutions including the Library of Congress and Senate House Library, and actively participates in professional societies like the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (where he chairs the Graduate & Early Career Caucus) and the German Studies Association. His professional training includes bibliographic courses at Rare Book School and work experience at Germany's Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Dortmund.

Recognition includes a Folger Shakespeare Library dissertation fellowship supporting his early modern research. Lewis advocates for accessible scholarship through letterpress printing and digital humanities initiatives.