People
Michael Levenson, Director
Michael Levenson is William B. Christian Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of A Genealogy of Modernism (Cambridge University Press), Modernism and the Fate of Individuality (Cambridge University Press), The Spectacle of Intimacy (Princeton University Press, co-author Karen Chase),and the forthcoming Modernism from Yale University Press (2011). He is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Modernism (2000, 2nd edition 2011).
He has been awarded a series of grants and fellowships, including a Mellon Fellowship (2002-2005), a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1995), and Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant (2010 — ).
He has lectured at Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, York, Sussex, Warwick (among others) and has published essays in such journals as Modernism/Modernity, ELH, The New Republic, Wilson Quarterly, and Raritan.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Trenton, New Jersey, Professor Levenson received his B.A. from Harvard College and Ph.D from Stanford University. His interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century transatlantic literatures, the Broadway Musical, the history of literary theory, and global comparative cultures.
Chris Forster, Program Administrator
Chris Forster recently completed his PhD at the University of Virginia, examining questions of aesthetic value and textual reproduction in early-twentieth century obscenity debates surrounding works of modernist literature. He is also interested in how digital technology offers new opportunities and challenges for humanities teaching and research. He sometimes posts about such matters at http://cforster.com.
Faculty Advisory Committee
- Allison Alexy (Anthropology)
- Hanadi Al-Samman (Middle Eastern and South Asian Language and Literature)
- Craig Barton (Architecture)
- Ira Bashkow (Anthropology)
- Enrico Cesaretti (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)
- Marcia Childress (Medical Humanities)
- Anne Coughlin (Law)
- Rita Felski (English)
- Francesca Fiorani (Art History)
- Jenny Geddes (Religious Studies)
- Mitch Green (Philosophy)
- Janet Horne (French)
- James Hunter (Religion, Culture and Social Theory)
- John Miller (Classics)
- Sophia Rosenfeld (History)
- Chad Wellmon (German)
- Gweneth West (Drama)