Robert S. Levine

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• Distinguished University Professor of English, University of Maryland

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I am Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, with wide interests in 19th-century American literature and culture. My most recent books include "The Lives of Frederick Douglass" (2016) 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 new book, "After Uncle Tom's Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Quest for Interracial Democracy," will be published by W. W. Norton in January 2027. My edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's fragments is forthcoming with The Library of America (October 2026). I have begun work on a book about Hawthorne and Melville.

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• –present Distinguished University Professor of English, University of Maryland

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