Sarah Lewison

Assistant Professor

SIUC Faculty Since 2007

Contact Information

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Room: 13C Communications Bldg.

Office Phone: (618) 453-8989

Fax: 453-6982

Curriculum Vitae:  Download Sarah Lewison's CV

SIUC Directory: Sarah Augusta Lewison

Website: Sarah Augusta Lewison

Education

MFA Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego, 2007

Interests

Video, media studies

Biography

Sarah Lewison, Assistant Professor, is a media producer, artist and writer whose work examines power, economics and political subjectivity. Her teaching and research areas include media and social change, ecological pedagogy and experimental performance. Her video work includes the documentary Fat of the Land which screened on PBS and in museums, festivals and community spaces worldwide, and is nationally noted for stimulating the do-it-yourself waste-grease bio-diesel movement. Prof. Lewison’s writing about media aesthetics, social history, sustainability and culture has been published in Tema (Denmark), Journal of Northeast Studies (Hamburg, Germany), Area (Chicago), and “Failure! Experiments in Aesthetics and Social Practices”(Aesthetics and Protest Pub., LA). She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of California San Diego.

Courses

• RT 365 - Intermediate production for studio and field.