Robert S. Levine
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2013) |
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| Discipline | American literature |
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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)
- Martin R. Delaney: A Documentary Reader, editor (2003)
- Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism (2008)
- Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville: Essays in Relation, editor, with Samuel Otter (2008)
- "Genealogical Fictions: Race in The House of the Seven Gables and Pierre", in Argersinger, Jana L. and Person, Leland S., eds. Hawthorne and Melville: Writing a Relationship (2008).
- The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville, editor (2014)
- The Heroic Slave [a story by Frederick Douglass]: 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)
- After Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe, African America, and the Quest for Interracial Democracy (forthcoming)
Awards
[edit]- Outstanding Book Award from Choice Reviews magazine in 1997
- 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship
- 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2014 Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement
References
[edit]- ^ "Alumni in the News: September 13, 2021". Columbia College Today. 2021-09-13. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ^ "Robert S. Levine". english.umd.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ^ Szalai, Jennifer (2021-08-30). "When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. (Review of The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson.)
- ^ "Robert S. Levine". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-01-18.