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Professor Levin specializes in contemporary British and postcolonial literature, transnational cultural studies, and critical and literary theory. His research focuses on the ways in which twentieth-century global conditions have shaped contemporary culture and produced new discourses of self and identity. In his recent book, The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel: The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization (Routledge, 2008), he explores different modes of constructing selfhood through leisure travel and considers the ways these responses sustain or challenge ideologies of colonialism. Professor Levin is currently completing essays for publication on the political thought of the Caribbean intellectual C.L.R. James, the status of realism in recent postcolonial fiction, and the politics of contemporary literary prizes. Professor Levin teaches introductory and advanced courses on Anglophone world fiction, contemporary British literature, English poetry, and cultural studies and social theory. His recent courses have included "Fictions of Empire," "Contemporary British Fiction and Culture," and "Webs and Labyrinths: Imagining Globalization in Literature."
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in Culture, History, and Theory, Emory University, 2005
- B.A., Wesleyan University, 1993
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Like a Patient Etherized: Death Drive and The Commons
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
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Portland, Oregon
Spring
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2023
Sponsored by Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
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Discussant on panel at Clark to mark release of Ousmane Power-Greene's novel _The Confessions of Matthew Strong_.
The Confessions of Matthew Strong (Novel)
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Clark Univ
Fall
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2022
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Discussant for Environmental Humanities Symposium. (Organized Event with three invited speakers and acted as discussant for second hour)
Environmental Humanities Symposium (Higgins School of Humanities)
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Clark Univ
November
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2022
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The Doomsday Vault: Narrative and the Liberation of Radiant Life
American Comparative Literature Association
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Chicago, IL
March
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2020
Sponsored by American Comparative Literature Association
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Allegories of Capital: Postcolonial Melancholy in Amit Chaudhuri's The Immortals and Zadie Smith's NW
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Figures of Disappearance: Selfhood in an Era of Mass Extinction (Consolidated and Revised MS of Book Project)
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Awards & Grants
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Environmental Humanities Symposium
Higgins School of Humanities (Linking Grant)
Sep. 1, 2022 - Dec. 15, 2022
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Island and Ocean Studies: Narratives from Barbados
Higgins School of Humanities
Apr. 1, 2023
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