Armanda L. Lewis

Associate Director

Armanda L. Lewis is a Program Associate for the Diversity Initiatives and HBCU programs, and serves as the Associate Director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program.  She received her BA in French and Spanish from Rice University, and was an MMUF fellow during this time.  While completing her doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese from Columbia University (PhD, 2007), Ms. Lewis researched issues of otherness in the 19th-century Latin American novel, and worked as the graduate assistant to the MMUF program at Barnard College.  She has taught Spanish language and Latin American literature at Columbia University, Rice University, and the Spence School.

Ms. Lewis finished a master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University in the spring of 2009.  She currently focuses on projects in the digital humanities, specifically researching and developing technological tools and applications which facilitate the teaching and learning of foreign languages and literatures.