I am Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, with wide interests in 19th-century American literature and culture and a particular fascination with the life and work of Frederick Douglass. My most recent books are The Lives of Frederick Douglass (2016), Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (2018), and The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (2021). I am the General Editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature and past winner of Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships. My new book, “After Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Quest for Interracial Democracy,” will be published by W. W. Norton late 2026. My paperback original of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Parables, Fantasies, Fragments” will be published by Library of America right around the same time.
My University of Maryland website (with C.V.): https://english.umd.edu/directory/robert-levine