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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.
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]