Robert S. Levine is a scholar of

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and African American literature. He is currently Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the

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Biography

Levine received his B.A. from

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in 1975 and his PhD from

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in 1981. His research focuses on 19th-century American literature, especially on the life and works of

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. He sits on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals including ''

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'' and ''

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'' and serves as General Editor of ''

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.''

Works

* ''Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown,

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, and Melville'' (1989) * ''

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, 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 ''The Heroic Slave, a Heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty'' is a short piece of fiction, or novella, written by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, at the time a fugitive slave based in Boston. When ...

'' 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

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'' (2021
Review

Awards

* Outstanding Book Award from ''

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'' magazine in 1997 * 2012

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Senior Fellowship * 2013

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* 2014 Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement

References

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