Paul Lewis (professor)
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Paul Lewis is Professor of English in Boston College, Massachusetts, United States, specializing in humor, American literature and Gothic fiction. He has an A.B. from the City College of New York, a M.A.: University of Manitoba, Ph.D.: University of New Hampshire.[1]
Lewis was the chair of the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston and played a key role in the project that installed a statue of the Antebellum writer on Bolyston Street in 2014[2] titled Poe Returning to Boston. Also involving Poe, Lewis oversaw a team that installed an exhibit between December 2009 to March 2010 at the Boston Public Library called The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston, which explored Poe's relationship with contemporary Bostonian writers.[2]
He is also a freelance writer, who invented the neologism "frankenfood", critical of genetically modified food, in a letter he wrote to The New York Times in response to the decision of the US Food and Drug Administration to allow companies to market genetically modified food. The term "frankenfood" has become a battle cry of the European side in the US-EU agricultural trade war.[citation needed]