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Tyson E. Lewis

Title: Professor

Department: Art Education

College: College of Visual Arts and Design

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006
    Major: Education
    Specialization: Educational Foundations
  • MA, University of Denver, 2002
    Major: Art History
    Specialization: Museum Studies
  • BA, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1996
    Major: Art History

Current Scheduled Teaching

ARTE 4790.001Art Education: Inquiry and Dialogue about ArtSpring 2025
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSpring 2025
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2025
ARTE 5900.001Special ProblemsSpring 2025
ARTE 5714.001Aesthetic Inquiry with Urban Youth and CommunitiesFall 2024
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsFall 2024
ARTE 4795.001Topics in Art EducationFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2024
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2024
ART 6900.707Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2024
ARTE 5788.001Advanced Research Methods in Art EducationSpring 2024 SPOT
ARTE 4790.001Art Education: Inquiry and Dialogue about ArtSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2024
ARTE 4790.001Art Education: Inquiry and Dialogue about ArtFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
ARTE 5760.001Seminar in Art EducationFall 2023 SPOT
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsFall 2023
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2023
EDLL 6900.711Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2023
ARTE 4790.001Art Education: Inquiry and Dialogue about ArtSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ART 6950.757Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
ARTE 5779.001Theory and Research of Lived Experience for Art EducationSpring 2023 SPOT
ARTE 4790.001Art Education: Inquiry and Dialogue about ArtFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ARTE 5753.001Contemporary Trends in Art EducationFall 2022 SPOT
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationFall 8W2 2022
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsFall 2022
ARTE 5714.001Aesthetic Inquiry with Urban Youth and CommunitiesSpring 2022 SPOT
ARTE 4790.001Art Education: Inquiry and Dialogue about ArtSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ART 6950.757Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2022
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsFall 2021
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSummer SUM 2021
AEAH 4790.001Art Education: Inquiry and Dialogue about ArtSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 5712.001Communities, Schools, and MuseumsSpring 2021 SPOT
ART 6950.757Doctoral DissertationSpring 2021
ART 1301.003Honors Art AppreciationSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2021
AEAH 4790.001Art Education: Inquiry and Dialogue about ArtFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
ART 6950.708Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
AEAH 5763.001Politics of AestheticsFall 2020 SPOT
AEAH 5900.707Special ProblemsFall 2020
AEAH 5712.001Communities, Schools, and MuseumsSpring 2020
ART 6950.757Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
ART 4951.001Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2020
ART 4900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2020
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2020
AEAH 4790.001Visual Arts Studies : Inquiry and Dialogue About ArtSpring 2020 Syllabus
AEAH 5714.001Aesthetic Inquiry with Urban Youth and CommunitiesFall 2019 SPOT
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationFall 2019
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationFall 8W2 2019
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsFall 2019
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSummer 10W 2019
ART 5950.707Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2019
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2019
ART 5910.707Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2019
AEAH 5788.001Advanced Research Methods in Art EducationSpring 2019 SPOT
ART 6950.757Doctoral DissertationSpring 2019
ART 5950.707Master's ThesisSpring 2019
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2019
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationFall 2018
AEAH 5763.001Politics of AestheticsFall 2018 SPOT
AEAH 5763.791Politics of AestheticsFall 2018 SPOT
AEAH 5900.707Special ProblemsFall 2018
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsFall 2018
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSummer 10W 2018
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2018
AEAH 5779.001Phenomenological Theory and Research for Art EducationSpring 2018 SPOT
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2018
ART 5910.707Special ProblemsSpring 2018
ART 6950.707Doctoral DissertationFall 2017
AEAH 5763.001Politics of AestheticsFall 2017 SPOT
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsFall 2017
ART 5910.707Special ProblemsFall 2017
AEAH 4795.001Topics in Visual Arts StudiesFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2017
ART 5910.707Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2017
ART 6950.757Doctoral DissertationSpring 2017
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2017
AEAH 4795.001Topics in Visual Arts StudiesSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4790.001Visual Arts Studies : Inquiry and Dialogue About ArtSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 5763.001Politics of AestheticsFall 2016 SPOT
AEAH 5900.707Special ProblemsFall 2016
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsFall 2016
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2016
AEAH 4790.001Visual Arts Studies : Inquiry and Dialogue About ArtSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 5760.004Seminar in Art EducationFall 2015 SPOT
AEAH 3753.001Visual Arts Studies : Foundations of Visual Arts StudiesFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ART 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2015
AEAH 5763.001Theories in Criticism & AestheticsSpring 2015
AEAH 4790.001Visual Arts Studies : Inquiry and Dialogue About ArtSpring 2015 Syllabus
AEAH 5760.003Seminar in Art EducationFall 2014
AEAH 4790.001Visual Arts Studies : Inquiry and Dialogue About ArtFall 2014 Syllabus

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Lewis, T.E. (2023). Educational potentialities: Collected talks on revolutionary education, Aesthetics, and Organization. Iskra Books.
  • Lewis, T.E., Hyland, P. (2022). Studious Drift: Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/studious-drift
  • Lewis, T.E., Jasinsky, I. (2021). Rethinking Philosophy for Children: Agamben and Education as Pure Means. Denton, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/rethinking-philosophy-for-children-9781350133570/
  • Lewis, T.E. (2020). Walter Benjamin's Anti-Fascist Education: From Riddles to Radio. New York, SUNY Press.
  • Co-Editor with Megan Laverty. (2017). Inoperative Learning: A radical rethinking of educational potentialities. New York, Routledge.
  • Lewis, T., Laverty, M. (2015). Art’s teachings, teaching’s art: Philosophical, critical, and educational musings. Rotterdam, Springer.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2013). On study: Giorgio Agamben and educational potentiality. New York, Routledge.
  • Tyson Lewis. (2012). The aesthetics of education: Theatre, curiosity, and politics in the work of Jacques Ranciere and Paulo Freire. London, Continuum. http://smile.amazon.com/Aesthetics-Education-Curiosity-Politics-Ranciere/dp/1472581350/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-2&qid=1408888750
  • Richard Kahn. (2010). Education out of bounds: Reimagining cultural studies for a posthuman age. New York, Palgrave. http://smile.amazon.com/Education-Out-Bounds-Reimagining-Posthuman/dp/0230622542/ref=la_B003N7AC5U_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408888985&sr=1-3
  • Book Chapter

  • Lewis, T.E. (2021). Visually Mapping Totality: Fredric Jameson's Greimassian Square. The Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education. New York, Routledge.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2020). The Dude Abides, or Why Curiosity is Important for Education Today. 91-105. Minneapolis, Univ Of Minnesota Press.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2019). Study: A Disinterested Passion. Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education: Common Concepts for Contemporary Movements. Leiden, Brill.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2017). Image as ignorant schoolmaster: A lesson in democratic equality. Handbook on artistic citizenship. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2017). Impersonal Education and the Commons. Educational commons in theory and practice: Global pedagogy and politics. 95-108. New York, Palgrave.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2016). Beyond the developmental machine: The politics of philosophy for infancy. Philosophy of childhood today: Exploring the boundaries. 79-92. Lanham, Lexington Books.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2016). Exploding brains: Beyond the spontaneous philosophy of brain-based learning. Neuroscience and education: A philosophical appraisal. 144-156. New York, Routledge.
  • Lewis, T.E., D'Hoest, F. (2015). ‘Immanence: A life…”: An educational formula?. Philosophy of education society’s yearbook, 2015. 535-543. Urbana-Champaign, University of Urbana-Champaign.
  • Call for Papers

  • Travis, S., Kraehe, A., Hood, E.J., Lewis, T.E. (2015). Call for papers: Pedagogies in the Flesh: Teaching, Learning, and the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences.
  • Co-Edited Volume

  • Lewis, T.E., Brust, C., Burton , A. (2022). Co-edited volume. Other. 78 (no. 2 and 4) Philosophy of Education Society. https://www.philofed.org/copy-of-issue-3
  • Edited Special Issue of Visual Arts Research

  • Lewis, T.E. (2018). On Studying. Visual Arts Research. 44 (1) Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, University of Minnesota Press.
  • Journal Article

  • Lewis, T.E., Travis, S. (2023). A phenomenology of joyful experimentation in art education. Studies in Art Education. 64 (3) 344-358.
  • Lewis, T.E., Donaldson, C. (2023). Critical phenomenology as research-creation: A theoretical framework. Other. 40 (1) 66-80. 1155 Union Cir
  • Lewis, T.E. (2023). Outline of the psychophysical educational problem in the work of Walter Benjamin. Other. 50 (1) 103-128. Durham, Duke University Press.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2023). Sacred night of study. Other. 31 (2) 291-310. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2023). Walter Benjamin on education as an immersive awakening and the need for an ethics of the learner. Other. 7 (1) 41-64.
  • Lewis, T.E., Valk, S. (2022). Educational realism: Defining exopedaogy as the choreography of swarm intelligence. Educational Philosophy and Theory. 54 (7)
  • Lewis, T.E., Hood, E. (2021). Oohing and Ahhing: The Power of Thin(g)king in Art Education Research. International Journal of Education through Art. 17 (2) 217-221.
  • Lewis, T.E., Pfohl, S., Ayers, W. (2021). Simple, Dark, and Deep: Photographic Theorizations of As-Yet Schools. Other. 3 793–830. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-021-00233-9
  • Lewis, T.E. (2020). The Pataphysics of Inoperativity in the Works of Giorgio Agamben. Other. 3 139-161.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2020). Thinking Without a Head: Studying Giorgio Agamben's Phytological Machine. Other. 25 (6) 89-107.
  • Moffett, C., Lewis, T.E. (2020). Notes on Notes on Notes. Educational Philosophy and Theory.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2020). Defining a Pataphysical Stance for Arts-Based Research. Studies in Art Education. 61 (3) 220-229.
  • Lewis, T.E., Kraehe, A. Rise: Emergent Strategies for Reclaiming Joy and Agency Against Neofascist and White Supremacist Assaultive Speech. Other. 37 39-55.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2019). The Art of Distraction: Walter Benjamin on Distraction and the Informal Education of the City. Educational Theory. 69 (2) 169-183. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2019). The Waves of Education: Swelling as a Metaphor in the Work of Walter Benjamin. (2) 7-17. University of Padova, Italy.
  • Lewis, T.E., Kraehe, A. (2019). Urban Education and the Creative City. Educational Theory. 69 (2) 145-151. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
  • Thurman, J., Lewis, T.E. (2019). Tinkering and Hacking With Objects in the Art Classroom. Art Education Journal. Taylor & Francis (The Official Journal of the National Art Education Association).
  • Lewis, T.E. (2018). Studying Postmodernism. Educational Philosophy and Theory. 50 (14) 1342-1343.
  • Lewis, T.E., Alireabeigi, S. (2018). Studying with the internet. Studies In Philosophy and Education. 36 (6) 553-566.
  • Lewis, T.E., Ford, D. (2018). On the freedom to be opaque monsters: Communist pedagogy, aesthetics, and the sublime. 14 (1) 95-108. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Duke University Press.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2018). The pedagogical power of things: Toward a post-intentional phenomenology of unlearning. 98 (Winter) 122-144. St. Paul, University of Minnesota Press.
  • Lewis, T.E., , Hyland, P., Friedrick, D. (2018). Organizing a Studious Conference. Visual Arts Research. 44 (86) 1-12. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
  • Tyson E. Lewis. (2017). Beyond Measure: Studying the Educational Logic of Patti Lather's Getting Lost. Other. 23 (4) 1-9.
  • Lewis, T.E., Vlieghe, J. (2017). Temporality, pleasure, and the angelic in teaching: Toward a pictorial-ontological turn in education. Journal of Aesthetic Education. 51 (2) 59-81.
  • David Backer. (2017). Trust me, I do not know what I am talking about! The voice of the teacher beyond the oath and blasphemy. Educational Philosophy and Theory. 49 (1) 47-57.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2017). Walter Benjamin’s Radio Pedagogy. Other. 142 (1) 18-33.
  • Lewis, T.E., Harkan, L. (2017). Designing Philosophy. Other. 1 (2) 36-46.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2017). A Marxist education of the encounter: Althusser, interpellation, and the seminar. Other. 29 (2) 303-317.
  • Bartholomee, L.G., Herman, D., Kraehe, A., Lewis, T. (2017). Creating the city: An interview with Antonia Darder and Pepón Osorio. Policy Futures in Education. Sage Journals.
  • Lewis, T.E., Friedrich, D. (2016). Educational states of Suspension. Educational Philosophy and Theory. 48 (3) 237-250.
  • Lewis, T.E., Jasinski, I. (2016). The educational community as in-tentional community. Studies In Philosophy and Education. 35 (4) 371-383.
  • Lewis, T.E. (2016). The pedagogical function of art as interpretation. Journal of Aesthetic Education. 50 (2) 57-71.
  • Florelle D'Hoest. (2016). To be less than you are: Self suspension, potentiality, and study. Ethics and Education. 11 (3) 340-351.
  • Lewis, T.E., Backer, D. (2015). Retaking the Test. Educational Studies. 51 (3) 193-208.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Lewis, T.E., "Tracing the History of the Visual Culture of Fascist Movements and Subcultures in the United States," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $2600 Funded. (2024 - 2024).
  • Lewis, T.E. (Principal), Link, B. (Co-Principal), Donaldson, C. (Co-Principal), "Critical Communities of Practice," sponsored by Onstead Institute, University of North Texas, $25000 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
  • West, R. (Co-Principal), Lewis, T.E. (Co-Principal), Moffett, C. (Co-Principal), Hayes, A. (Co-Principal), "Visualizing the Choreography of Teaching: Team Mentoring Grant," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).
  • Abel, M.S., Kraehe, A., Lewis, T.E., "THE URBAN NETWORK PROJECT," sponsored by Provost's Office, University of North Texas, $3700 Funded. (2017 - 2018).
  • Lewis, T.E., "Education as Experimentation," sponsored by I-GRO, University of North Texas, $12000.00 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
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    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
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