Alexandra Lewis is Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. She has taught, supervised, and held research fellowships at the University of Cambridge; Goldsmiths College London; School of Advanced Study London; University of Warwick; and the University of Aberdeen, where she was Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for the Novel.

Alexandra has published widely on literature and psychology/medicine; nineteenth-century fiction; and contemporary literature. Recent publications include the Norton Critical Edition of Wuthering Heights and an edited collection on The Brontës and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination (Cambridge University Press). Current projects include a monograph on trauma and memory, and a short story collection and novel. She serves on the International Advisory Board for the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE) and is the President of the Hunter Writers Centre.