Affiliation

Associate Professor,听Department of Philosophy (91社区)

Research interests

building community via creative arts, urban sound art and in-situ installations.

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Contact information

eric.lewis [at] mcgill.ca (> Email)

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Ongoing projects and recent publications

• AUMI as a tool for socialization and the achievement of pedagogic goals in children with disabilities鈥攁nalysis of pilot project data
• Singing Identity鈥擩eanne Lee鈥檚 Vocal Practice;听A study of her vocal practice and its relationship to theories of the construction of intersectional identities. (book)
• Creative Urban Sound-Walk Apps
• Design and Implementation of fully adaptive Playgrounds
• Best Practices for Community鈥擴niversity鈥擯rivate Sector Research Partnerships Development of Success Indicators for Community-Facing Cultural Programs
• (forthcoming) 鈥淎UMI and the Ethics of Technology鈥擜 Personal Encounter鈥�, chapter in Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI), under contract with Univ. of Michigan Press (principle editor, Sherrie Tucker)
• (forthcoming) 鈥淎n Historical Account of the AUMI Desktop Application鈥�, chapter in Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI), (last author, with John Sullivan, Ivan Franco, Ian Hattwick and Thomas Ciufo), under contract with Univ. of Michigan Press (principle editor, Sherrier Tucker)
• 鈥淩einscribing the Noise: New media-walk technologies and the politics of community engagement鈥� in: Sonic Engagement, Routledge, 2022 (with Christos Carras).

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Selected publications

Eric Lewis. "This Ain鈥檛 A Hate Thing: Jeanne Lee and the Subversion of the Jazz Standard",听Jazz and Culture, vol. 1, 2018.

Eric Lewis, Georgina Born & William Straw (eds.).听Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, Duke University Press, 2017.

Eric Lewis. "What is 鈥淕reat Black Music鈥�? The Social Aesthetics of the AACM in Paris", in G. Born, E. Lewis &听W. Straw (eds.),听Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, 2017.

Eric Lewis.听The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie,听91社区听Queens Press, 2013.

Eric Lewis. "The Cosmic Alloy: Xenakis as Platonic Demiurge", in Sharon Kanach (ed.),听Exploring Xenakis, Pendragon, 2012.

Eric Lewis.听Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentary on Book IV of Aristotle鈥檚 Meteorologia, Duckworth and Cornell University Press, 1996.