Kevin Lewis

Kevin Lewis, Professor of Religious Studies whose appointment at the University of South Carolina began in 1973, was born in 1943 in Ashville, North Carolina. He has been married to Becky Wingard Lewis since 1976, and they have shared teaching in three Fulbright appointments: Krakow, 1988-89; Gaza, Fall 1998; and Amman, Jordan, Fall 2005. Lewis's specialty, "Arts, Literature, and Religion" (add Philosophy) over the years has permitted forays along diverse paths of research, writing and teaching. He is occasionally recognized as a sometime poet. Website: www.cas.sc.edu/relg/facbios/lewis.html

Lonesome: The Spiritual Meanings of American Solitude (IBTauris, 2009) is meant to open a conversation about the savory uses of "lonesome" to evoke meanings quite beyond the depressive "lonely."