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 current book in progress, under advance contract with W. W. Norton, is on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Black America, and the quest for interracial democracy. With the help of an NEH Public Scholars grant, I hope to complete the book in 2024.
My current CV: Levine CV2024