Welcome to the Department of English at Rutgers University
- George Levine
- Position:
Professor Emeritus of English
- At Rutgers Since:
1968
- Retired Since:
2006
- Email Address:
georgelevine@gmail.com
- Bio:
Professor Levine has released the following publications: Dying to Know (2002); The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (2001); Darwin and the Novelists (1988); The Realistic Imagination (1981); and Lifebirds (1997). He also wrote introduction and notes for The Origin of the Species (2004). He works in aesthetics, nineteenth-century literature and culture, the relations between literature and science, and problems connected with the condition of the profession. He is at work on a new study, "The Uses of Darwin," and "How to Read the Victorian Novel." He was Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture.
- Education:
PhD, Minnesota University
MA, Minnesota University
BA, New York University
- Areas of Specialization:
Victorian literature; literature and science
- Undergraduate Courses Taught:
Victorian Fiction
Victorian Prose
Narrative and Science
Narrative and Epistemology
Science and Culture
Departmental and University Positions
1981, Department of English Chair | Chair of CSPAD | Associate Proviost for the Humanities in New Brunswick | 1986, Co-founder and director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (renamed Center for Cultural Analysis)