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American literary scholar
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)
-
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)
Review
Awards
- 2014 Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement
References