
About
Early Modern Literature; Literature and Intellectual History
Professor Levao's publications include: Selected Poems of Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel, and Sir Walter Ralegh (2001); Renaissance Minds and Their Fictions: Cusanus, Sidney, Shakespeare (1985). He most recently edited the Longman Cultural Edition of Henry IV, Parts I & II (2006). Professor Levao has also authored the articles: "Among Unequals What Society: Paradise Lost and the Forms of Intimacy" (Modern Language Quarterly, 2000); "Francis Bacon and the Mobility of Science" (Representations, 1991); "Reading the Fights: Making Sense of Professional Boxing" (Raritan, 1986); and "Sidney's Feigned Apology" (PMLA, 1979).
Office / Office Hours
Murray Hall, Room 201, College Ave Campus
Courses Taught
- Metaphysical Poetry
- Milton
- Renaissance
- Shakespeare
- Doubled Selves in Shakespeare
- Milton
- Renaissance
- Sidney and Marvell
Awards and Affiliations
- Warren I. Sussman Teaching Award, 2004
- National Endowment for the Humanties Fellowship, 1995
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, Rutgers University, 1991
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1988-9
- Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1970-1
- The Academy of American Poets Prize, 1970
Publications
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Henry IV, Parts I & II, A Longman Cultural Edition
- Information
- Longman, 2007
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Renaissance Minds and Their Fictions: Cusanus, Sidney, Shakespeare
- Information
- University of California Press, 1985
- "William Davenant"
The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors (2004) - "Christopher Marlowe"
Tudor England: An Encyclopedia (2001) - "'Among unequals what society': Paradise Lost and the Forms of Intimacy"
Modern Language Quarterly 61.1, 2000 - "Boxing"
Violence in America: An Encyclopedia 1 (1999) - "Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim" and "James Sandford"
Major Tudor Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (1997) - "Preface"
Eloge de La Poesie in the series "Le Corpes eloquent" (1994) - "Francis Bacon and the Mobility of Science"
Representations 40, Fall 1992 - "Nicholas of Cusa"
The Spenser Encyclopedia (1990)
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
MA, University of California, Berkeley
BA, Rutgers University
Other Information of Interest
- "Rutgers in the Late 1960s: Selective Reflections" by Ron Levao
(Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)