Katie da Cunha Lewin is a writer and lecturer based in London. I have a PhD in literature and is the co-editor of Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives published by Bloomsbury in 2018.
I am an experienced tutor and have taught widely. I have created and led several courses on modernism, the novel, contemporary American writing, culture and literary theory, film noir, Hollywood history, and feminism. Between September 2021 and June 2025 I was a lecturer at Coventry University in 20th and 21st century literature where she taught courses on modernism, postwar literature, 21st century fiction, and creative nonfiction. I am currently co-editor-in-chief of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings.
My reviews and essays have been widely published. I am represented by Charlotte Seymour at Johnson & Alcock. My first book, The Writer’s Room, was published in 2025 by Eliott & Thompson. You can find her Substack here.
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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
Podcasts
‘Katie da Cunha Lewin on The Writer’s Room’, The Virginia Woolf podcast, Episode 4, Season 4, 2025
Books
The Writer’s Room, Elliott & Thompson, 2025
The Writer’s Room, Princeton University Press, forthcoming 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, 2025)
'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
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