{"id":87,"date":"2017-11-09T22:38:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.dustysheldon.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=87"},"modified":"2018-04-30T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:48:15","slug":"megan-lewis","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/megan-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Megan Lewis<\/strong> is a South African-American theatre and performance studies scholar based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of <em>Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life<\/em> (University of Iowa Press, 2016) and <em>Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space<\/em> (with Dr. Anton Krueger, Intellect Books\/Unisa Press, 2016). A Distinguished Teaching Award winner, Dr. Lewis is a multidisciplinary educator with a passion for inspiring intellectual curiosity and advocating for the performing arts as a powerful force for social activation and change. Each summer, Lewis leads students on an intensive study abroad program, called Arts &amp; Culture in South Africa, that uses the performing arts as a lens through which to examine questions of social justice, race, class and gender politics, history, language, memory, and the role of the arts in our global world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megan Lewis is a South African-American theatre and performance studies scholar based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life (University of Iowa Press, 2016) and Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space (with Dr. Anton Krueger, Intellect Books\/Unisa Press, 2016). A Distinguished Teaching Award winner, Dr. Lewis is a multidisciplinary educator with a passion for inspiring intellectual curiosity and advocating for the performing arts as a powerful force for social activation and change. Each summer, Lewis leads students on an intensive study abroad program, called Arts &#038; Culture in South Africa, that uses the performing arts as a lens through which to examine questions of social justice, race, class and gender politics, history, language, memory, and the role of the arts in our global world.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"featured_media":259,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}