Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis

Gwen Etter-Lewis

Gwen Etter-Lewis has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan. She is professor emerita at Miami University of Ohio, where she taught linguistics, Black World Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of My Soul is My Own: Narratives of African American Women in the Professions; coauthor with Richard W. Thomas, Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Baha’is in North America, 1898-2000; and co-editor with Michele Foster, Unrelated Kin: Race and Gender in Women’s Personal Narratives. Recently she authored a biography for young people, Attorney for Racial Justice: The Story of Elsie Austin.

2025 Courses

Writing Histories and Biographies