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Robert S. Levine
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2013)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineAmerican literature
Institutions

Robert S. Levine is a scholar of American and African American literature. He is currently Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Biography

Levine received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1975 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1981.[1][2] His research focuses on 19th-century American literature, especially on the life and works of Frederick Douglass.[3] He sits on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals including American Literary History and Journal of American Studies and serves as General Editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature.[4]

Works

  • Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville (1989)
  • Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity (1997)
  • The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville, editor (1998)
  • Dislocating Race and Nation (2008)
  • Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville: Essays in Relation, editor, with Samuel Otter (2008)
  • The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville, editor (2014)
  • Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition, co-edited with John Stauffer and John R. McKivigan (2015).
  • The Lives of Frederick Douglass (2016)
  • Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (2018)
  • The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (2021)

Awards

  • 2014 Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement

References

  1. ^ "Alumni in the News: September 13, 2021". Columbia College Today. 2021-09-13. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
  2. ^ "Robert S. Levine". english.umd.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
  3. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (2021-08-30). "When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
  4. ^ "Robert S. Levine". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-01-18.