Reina Lewis (born 1963)[1] is a British art historian and author.
Her PhD in Humanities at Middlesex University on western women orientalist artists and writers marked a new development in understandings of gender and imperial cultures.
[1] Lewis's research has focused upon postcolonial history, Middle Eastern and Ottoman women's history, lesbian and gay studies and studies of other minority groups.
[7] A frequent media commentator, Lewis's writings and opinion have appeared across the global media in more recently The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, The Times, and Marie Claire magazine, and she is regularly to be heard on BBC Radio 4.
[8] Alongside authoring a number of seminal texts on gender and orientalism and queer visual culture, Lewis has also acted as consultant curator on the exhibition Contemporary Muslim Fashions at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (September 2018 – January 2019, touring to Germany in spring 2019, and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (2020–21).