Early Modern Literature; Literature and Intellectual History; Shakespeare and Film; Twins and Doubles in Literature and Myth

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 has also edited the Longman Cultural Edition of Henry IV, Parts I & II (2006). and The Annotated Frankenstein (2012), coedited with Professor Susan Wolfson.  Professor Levao has also authored the articles: "Shakespeare's Ghosts and Coleridge's Hamlet" (Journal of Romanticism, 2021); "William Davenant," Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy (2020); "La Science de Frankenstein" Frankenstein: Cree des Tenebres (2016); "'Where Black is the Color, Where None is the Number': Something from Nothing in Shakespeare's Sonnets," Literary Imagination, (2010); "They Hate us Youth': Byron's Falstaff," Literary Imagination (2009)"Among Unequals What Society: Paradise Lost and the Forms of Intimacy" (Modern Language Quarterly, 2000); "Francis Bacon and the Mobility of Science" (Representations, 1991); "Recent Studies in Marlowe" (English Literary Renaissance, 1988); "Reading the Fights: Making Sense of Professional Boxing" (Raritan, 1986); and "Sidney's Feigned Apology" (PMLA, 1979).

• Metaphysical Poetry
• Milton
• Renaissance
• Shakespeare

• Doubled Selves in Shakespeare
• Milton
• Renaissance
• Sidney and Marvell

• 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

• "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)

• "Rutgers in the Late 1960s: Selective Reflections" by Ron Levao 
  (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)

PhD, University of California, Berkeley
MA, University of California, Berkeley
BA, Rutgers University