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Katie da Cunha Lewin: Writer and lecturer

 

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Katie da Cunha Lewin is a writer and lecturer based in London. She has a PhD in literature and is the co-editor of Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives published by Bloomsbury in 2018.

Katie is an experienced tutor and has taught widely. She has created and led several courses on modernism, the novel, contemporary American writing, culture and literary theory, film noir, Hollywood history, and feminism. In September 2021, she joined Coventry University as a Lecturer in 20th and 21st century literature. She teaches courses on modernism, postwar literature, 21st century fiction, and creative nonfiction.

Her reviews and essays have been widely published. She is represented by Charlotte Seymour at Johnson & Alcock and is currently at work on her first nonfiction book, which will be published in 2025.

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Select reviews and interviews

The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Irish Times, 26th Jan 2022

People are strange - on Lauren Elkin’s NO.91/92, Brixton Review of Books, Issue 15 2021, Print magazine.

Rachel Kushner’s The Hard Crowd - the realities of life, Financial Times, 31st March 2021

Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts, Irish Times, 12th Feb 2021

Reading in Slow Motion: Brian Dillon’s Suppose a Sentence, LARB, 14th December 2020

Everything looks at everything: Rebecca Tamás’s Strangers, Splice, 28th October 2020

Selva Almada: Dead Girls review, The arts desk, 6th September 2020

The Choreography of Violence: On Adania Shibli’s “Minor Detail”, LARB, 21st June 2020

‘Cut, cut, cut’: Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto, Splice, 6th May 2020

Imagining Disaster: Jenny Offill’s Weather, Jezebel, 15th April 2020

Marguerite Duras and the Violence of Writing, LARB, 11th December 2019.

Exploring the Political Landscape of Cancer: Anne Boyer’s The Undying, Jezebel, 21st November, 2019.

A fish in the stream: a review of two novels by Annie Ernaux, The London Magazine, October/November edition, Print magazine.

Down at the farm: Jean Baptiste del Amo’s Animalia, Literary Review, August edition, Print magazine.

Review: Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, Wasafiri, Issue 99, Autumn, Print magazine.

With children: A review of Lucia Berlin, Times Literary Supplement, 15th February 2019

Hooking up with society: Sharlene Teo’s Ponti and Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman, The London Magazine, February/March edition, Print magazine

Shape Made of Smoke: Ben Marcus, Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2018

In this Vampiric Way: Garth Greenwell in conversation, Hotel, September 2018

Books

The Writer’s Room (forthcoming, 2025/2026)

Academic publications

'The Work of Writing/Writing of Work in the Millennial Novel' in The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, edited by Chris Lloyd and Loic Bourdeau (forthcoming, 2024)

'Land Art: Don DeLillo and Robert Smithson' in The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts, edited by Catherine Gander (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023)

Katherine Da Cunha Lewin and Kiron Ward eds., Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Don DeLillo (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).

‘Don DeLillo,’ Twenty-First-Century American Novelists, 3rd. Series, Vol. 382, Dictionary of Literary Biography (Detroit: Gale, 2018), pp. 41-61.

Essays

Moving through the world whilst pregnant, my body became everyone’s’, Psyche, January 21st 2025

A labour we will never see’, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 27th, 2021

‘The bed’, The Tangerine: Issue Ten, May 2021, Print magazine.

Vivid nights, dream filled days, Wellcome Collection, 17th December 2020

Let’s try again. Start Over: On Nathalie Leger, The White Review, September 2020

The Politics of Rediscovery, LARB, 17th August 2020.

All desire and pride: shame and young women, Imperica, Issue 6, July/August 2020. Print magazine.

Looking for books in charity shops, Brixton Review of Books, Issue 10 June 2020, Print magazine.

Body illuminated, 3 of cups, 6th May 2020. Patreon.

Resisting the cult of the literary sad woman, Prospect, 17th April 2020

A long time, Ache Magazine, April 2020, Print magazine.

The inheritance of ambiguity, The White Review, 22nd February 2019

Events

Launch of Sam Johnson-Schlee’s Living Rooms, Burley Fisher Books, 8th November 2022

Still Born: in Conversation with Guadalupe Nettel, Blackwell’s Manchester, 30th August 2022

Katie da Cunha Lewin: contact

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