Christopher Lewis

Christopher T. Lewis is Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Utah, where he joined the faculty in 2012. He holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages & Literatures from Harvard University (2011) and currently chairs the Department of World Languages and Cultures while directing the Portuguese & Brazilian Studies program.

• Department Chair (2021-present)
• Director, Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Program (2012-present)
• Affiliated Faculty, Mormon Studies Initiative (2020-present)

Prof. Lewis specializes in 21st-century Brazilian Literature, Machado de Assis scholarship, and temporal studies with interdisciplinary intersections across music, politics, literature, and cinema in Portuguese-speaking contexts. His research examines textual entropy, contrapuntal narratives, and decolonial temporal frameworks.

He has received multiple teaching awards including the University of Utah's Early Career Teaching Award (2019), Ramona W. Cannon Award (2018), and CLASP's national Junior Faculty Teaching Award (2016). His students have earned recognition through the University of Utah's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award and Harvard's Hoopes Prize.

As an ASCAP member composer and arranger, his musical works have been performed internationally. He previously taught at United States Military Academy at West Point (2012, Commander's Award) and Middlebury College, receiving Harvard's Derek C. Bok Award for undergraduate teaching excellence in 2010.