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Professor Carole Levin
Curriculum Vitae
Office: Department of History, 612 Oldfather Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0327 (402) 472-3494 E-mail:
Home: 128 N. 13th St., Apt 204, Lincoln, NE 68508
(402) 435-7339 (home) (402) 730-2948 (cell) E-mail:
Degrees
Ph.D. in History, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts l976
M.A. in History, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts l972
B.A. in History and English (with Honors) Southern Illinois University, Illinois l970
Fields of Specialization
Late Medieval/Early Modern England and Europe
Women's History (British and Late Medieval/Early Modern)
Recent Teaching, Administrative, and Consulting Experience
University of Nebraska
Director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, 2007-present.
Graduate Chair, Department of History, 2004-2006.
Willa Cather Professor of History, 2002 - present.
Professor of History, 1998-present.
The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.
Co-instructor (with Alan Stewart), Researching the Archives, Seminar for dissertation-level students, 2012-2013.
Curator (with Garrett Sullivan), Exhibit, “To Sleep Perchance to Dream”
(on display, February – May, 2009).
Mary Baldwin College
Visiting Professor, Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance Graduate Program, summer, 2010.
The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
Senior Historical Consultant, Exhibit, “Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend”
(on display, September 30, 2003-January 17, 2004; American Library Association traveling version 2003-2006).
Middle Tennessee State University
Strickland Visiting Scholar, September 2003.
SUNY/New Paltz
Professor of History, 1993-1998.
Associate Professor of History, l986-1993.
Assistant Professor of History and Coordinator of Women's Studies, 1984-1986.
University of North Carolina – Asheville
Carol Belk Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Spring, 1995.
Courses Taught Include
Lecture courses and introductory courses:
English history to 1688
Women in European History
World History
Western Civilization
Introduction to Women's Studies
The Wives of Henry VIII (seminar for first semester students)
Advanced undergraduate and graduate courses:
Tudor/ Stuart
Pre-Modern European History Through Biography
Saints, Witches and Madwomen
Research and reading seminars for graduate and undergraduate students:
Researching the Archives (graduate seminar at Folger Shakespeare Library)
Queens in Renaissance Court and Culture (graduate)
The English and the Others in the Early Modern Period (graduate)
Readings in Early Modern English History (graduate)
Historic/Literary Retellings (Honors undergraduate)
Shakespeare’s World (Honors undergraduate)
Research Seminar for History Majors (undergraduate)
Senior seminar in Women’s Studies (undergraduate)
Other graduate seminar:
Seminar on teaching for history graduate students
Publications
Books:
Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age, co-authored with John Watkins
(Cornell University Press, 2009; paperback edn, 2012).
Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
The Reign of Elizabeth I(Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (University of Pennsylvania Press, New Cultural Studies Series, 1994).
named one of the top ten academic books of the 1990s by the readers of Lingua Franca, September, 2000.
Propaganda in the English Reformation: Heroic and Villainous Images of King John(The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988).
Co-Edited Books:
Elizabeth I and the “Sovereign Arts”: Essays in Literature, History, and Culture
co-edited with Donald Stump and Linda Shenk essay collection (Tempe:
The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011).
Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England
co-edited with Robert Bucholz, essay collection (University of Nebraska Press, 2009).
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: a Commonplace Book
co-edited with Garrett Sullivan (Folger Shakespeare Library, 2009).
Encyclopediaof Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, England
co-edited with Diana Robin and Anne Larsen (ABC – Clio, 2007).
2008 Recipient of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women prize for best collaborative book published in 2007.
2008 Recipient of the Sixteenth Century Studies Society Roland Bainton prize for
best reference work published in 2007.
Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman
co-edited with Debra Barrett-Graves and Jo Eldridge Carney, essay collection (Ashgate, 2003).
“High and Mighty Queens” of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations,
co-edited with Debra Barrett-Graves and Jo Eldridge Carney, essay collection (Palgrave/St. Martins, 2003; paperback edition 2010).
Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World
lead author; co-authored with Debra Barrett-Graves, Jo Eldridge Carney, Gwynne Kennedy, W. M. Spellman, and Stephanie Witham (Greenwood Press, 2000).
Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women
co-edited with Patricia A. Sullivan, essay collection(SUNY Press, 1995).
Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama
co-edited with Karen Robertson, essay collection (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991).
Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
co-edited with Jeanie Watson, essay collection(Wayne State University Press, 1987).
Advisory Editor:
Susan Ammussen and Adele F. Seeff, ed. Attending to Early Modern Women
(University of Delaware Press, 1998). Other advisory editors: Joan Hartman, Margaret Mikesell, Anne Lake Prescott, and Betty Travitsky.
Journal Issues:
Explorations in Renaissance Culture Special Issue: “Scholarship on Elizabeth I,”
guest editor, 37, 1 (2011).
Explorations in Renaissance Culture Special Issue: “Images of Elizabeth I”
guest editor, with Donald Stump, 30, 1 (2004).
Scholarly Articles:
“Lady Mary Sidney and Her Siblings,” (co-authored with Catherine Medici)
Ashgate Research Companion to the Sidneys (1500-1700): Volume 1: Lives
Edited by Margaret P. Hannay, Michael G. Brennan, and Mary Ellen Lamb (Ashgate, forthcoming)
“The Itinerarium and Sixteenth Century English Queenship”(with Charles Beem) in William Fleetwood’s “Itinerarium ad Windsor”: A Critical Edition and Contextual Essays, edited by Dennis Moore and Charles Beem (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013), 155-73
“Women and political power in early modern Europe,” (co-authored with Alicia Meyer) Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, edited by Allyson Poska, Katherine McIver, Jane Couchman (Ashgate,2013), 341-57.
“Elizabeth I and the Meanings of Motherhood,” revised essay; originally published 2004 in Explorations in Renaissance Culture;
“Elizabeth Tudor: Maidenhood in Crisis,” (co-authored with Janel Mueller and Linda Shenk);
“Introduction,” (co-authored with Linda Shenk and Donald Stump)
Elizabeth I and the “Sovereign Arts”: Essays in Literature, History, and Culture,
Edited by Donald Stump, Linda Shenk, and Carole Levin (Tempe:
The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011), xvi-xxiii, 15-27, 85-103.
“Parents, Children, and Responses to Death in Dream Structures in Early Modern England,”
Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood,
edited by Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh (Ashgate, 2011), 39-50.
“’Mere English’: Why Elizabeth Never Left England,”(co-authored with Charles Beem) The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I, edited by Charles Beem (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011), 3-26.
“Dreams and Dreamers,”
A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture,
edited by Michael Hattaway (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2010), I, 598-610.
“The Wentworth and the Holles Families: Dreaming About the Living and Dead,”
Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 35.2 (2009), 115-31.
“Elizabeth I as Sister and ‘Loving Kinswoman,’”The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700, Anne Cruz and Mihoko Suzuki, eds. (University of Illinois Press, 2009),123-41.
“Introduction: It’s Good to be Queen,” (co-authored with Robert Bucholz)
Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England
Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz, eds. (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), xiii-xxxiii.
“Princess Elizabeth Travels About Her Kingdom in Life, in Text, and On Stage,”
Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England
Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz, eds. (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), 51-75.
“Lady Jane Grey on Film”
The Tudors and Stuarts on Film
Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) 76-87.
“Introduction,”
co-authored with Joseph Ward
Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England
Joseph Ward, ed.,(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 1-13.
“Reflections on the Life of a Scholar Looking for the Woman’s Part in Renaissance England,”
Medievalist Feminist Forum 43.1 (summer 2007), 58-71.
“Shakespeare and the Marginalized ‘Other,’”
A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature
Donna Hamilton, ed. (Blackwell, 2006), 200-16.
“Sister-Subject/Sister-Queen: Elizabeth I Among Her Siblings”
Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World: Sisters, Brothers and Others
Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh, eds. (Ashgate, 2006), 77-88.
“Elizabeth I Dreams of Danger”
Queen Elizabeth I: Past and Present,
Christa Jansohn, ed. (Lit Verlag, 2004), 9-27.
“Young Elizabeth in Peril: From Seventeenth Century Drama to Twentieth Century Films” (with Jo Eldridge Carney)
Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman
Carole Levin, Debra Barrett-Graves and Jo Eldridge Carney, eds. (Ashgate, 2003), 215-237.
“The Taming of the Queen: Foxe’s Katherine and Shakespeare’s Kate”
“High and Mighty Queens” in Early Modern England: Realities and Representations
Carole Levin, Debra Barrett-Graves Jo Eldridge Carney, eds. (Palgrave/St. Martins, 2003), 171-186.
“The Society of Shakespeare’s England”
Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide
Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin, eds. (Oxford Univ. Press, 2003), 93-102.
“‘Murder not then the fruit within my womb’: Shakespeare’s Joan, Foxe’s Guernsey Martyr, and Women Pleading Pregnancy in Early Modern English History and Culture”
Quidditas Vol 20 (1999 – actual publication date, 2001), 75-93.
“St. Frideswide and St. Uncumber: Changing Images of Female Saints in Renaissance England”
Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain Mary Elizabeth Burke, Jane Donawerth, Linda Dove, and Karen Nelson, eds. (Syracuse University Press, 2000), 223-237.
“‘We Princes, I tell you, are set on stages’: Elizabeth I and Dramatic Self-Representation”
Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama
S. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. (Routledge Press, 1998), 113-124.
“‘We shall never have a merry world while the Queen lyveth’: Gender, Monarchy, and the Power of Seditious Words"
Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana
Julia Walker, ed. (Duke University Press, 1998), 77-95.
“Women in the Renaissance”
Becoming Visible: Women in European History
Renate Bridenthal, Susan Stuard, and Merry Wiesner, eds. (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998, 3rd edition), 152-173.
“From Leo Africanus to Ignatius Sancho: Backgrounds and Echoes to Othello”
Lamar Journal of the Humanities
XXII, 2 (Fall 1996), 45-68.
Reprinted, Literature Criticism form 1400 to 1800, Vol. 215, Lawrence J. Trudeau, ed. (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2013), 266-275.
“Politics, Women's Voices, and the Renaissance: Questions and Contexts”
(with Patricia A. Sullivan)
“Women and Political Communication: From the Margins to the Center”
(with Patricia A. Sullivan)
Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women
Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan, eds. (SUNY Press, 1995), 1-13, 275-282.
“Mary Baynton and Anne Burnell: Madness and Rhetoric in Two Tudor Family Romances”
Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women
Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan, eds. (SUNY Press, 1995), 173-187
“Most Christian King, Most British King: the Image of Arthur in Tudor Propaganda”
The McNeese Review
XXXIII (1994), 80-90.
“‘As One Set on a Stage’: Queenship, the Expectations of Gender, and Shakespeare's Heroines”
The Shakespeare Yearbook
III (1992), 167-196.
“‘Lust Being Lord, There is No Trust in Kings’: Passion, King John, and the Responsibilities of Kingship”
Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama
Carole Levin and Karen Robertson, eds. (Edwin Mellen Press, 1991), 255-278.
“From Beggars to Souls: Thomas More's Response to Simon Fish's Supplication”
Lamar Journal of the Humanities
XVI, 2 (Fall, 1990), 5-22.
“Richard II and Edward II : The Structure of Deposition” (with Robert P.Merrix)
The Shakespeare Yearbook
I (1990), 1-13.
“Power, Politics, and Sexuality: Images of Elizabeth I”
The Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe
Jean R. Brink, Allison P. Coudert, and Maryanne C. Horowitz, eds. (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Volume XII, 1989), 95-110.
“‘Would I Could Give You Help and Succour’: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Touch,”Albion
21, 2 (1989), 191-205.
“‘I Trust I may Not Trust Thee’: Women's Visions of the World in Shakespeare's King John”
Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Carole Levin and Jeanie Watson, eds. (Wayne State University Press, 1987), 219-234.
“Queens and Claimants: Political Insecurity in Sixteenth Century England”
Gender, Ideology, and Action: Historical Perspectives on Women's Public Lives
Janet Sharistanian, ed. (Greenwood Press, l986), 41-66.
“John Foxe and the Responsibilities of Queenship,”
Medieval and Renaissance Women: Historical and Literary Perspectives
Mary Beth Rose, ed. (Syracuse University Press, 1986),113-133.
“Lady Jane Grey: Protestant Queen and Martyr”
Silent But For the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works
Margaret Hannay, ed.(Kent State University Press, l985), 92-l06, 272-274.
“Advice on Women's Behavior in Three Tudor Homilies”
International Journal of Women's Studies
(l983), VI, 2, 176-85.
“The Historical Evolution of the Death of King John in Three Renaissance Plays”
The Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association (l982), IV, 85-106.
“The Failure of Tudor Historians to Make King John a Hero”
Bulletin of the West Virginia Association of College English Teachers
(l982), VII, 24-32.
“Women in The Book of Martyrs as Models of Behavior in Tudor England"
International Journal of Women's Studies
(l98l), IV, 2, 196-207.
"A Good Prince: King John and Early Tudor Propaganda"
The Sixteenth Century Journal
(l980), XI, 4, 23-32.
Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries, Brief Notes
“John Blanke,” “Five Africans in England, 1555,” “Ignatius Sancho,”
(co-authored with Cassandra Auble)
Heritage of Freedom: Free Blacks in the Atlantic World, 1492-1900
Facts on File Publishers, forthcoming.
“Britain,”
(co-authored with Stewart King)
Heritage of Freedom: Free Blacks in the Atlantic World, 1492-1900
Facts on File Publishers, forthcoming.
“Queen Elizabeth I Society: the First Ten Years,” Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 37 (2011), 5-8.
“Alice Thornton,”
Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, edited by Garrett Sullivan and Alan Stewart (Blackwell, 2011), 954-55.
“A Turning Point in History,” “The End of an Era,”
Calliope (March, 2011), 14-17, 40-41.
“The Renaissance Resonates in Nebraska,” Prairie Fire 5, 1 (2011), 1, 22.
“Disguises, Young Robin Hood, and Popular History: the Attractions of Look About You.”
American Shakespeare CenterPlayhouse Insider 1.1 (Winter 2010), 16-19.
“Preface,”
for Clifton Potter,Undoubted Queen? Elizabeth I versus the Victorians (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010).
“Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Working on an Exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library,”
Perspectives: the American Historical Association Newsletter, 48:2 (February 2010)
“Looking Forward to a Future with More Work That Is Interdisciplinary,
Sixteenth Century Journal, 40, 1 (2009), 212-13.
“Elizabeth I,” “Mary Tudor,”
Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Bonnie Smith, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2008), II, 171-72; IV, 253-54.
“The Curious Case of the Sleeping Preacher,” “A User’s Guide to Dreams in the Age of Shakespeare,”
Folger Magazine (Summer, 2007), 20-25, 26-27.
“Elizabeth I,”
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender
Fedwa Malti-Douglas, ed. (Macmillan/Gale Group, 2007).
“Workshop summary: Woman of Power: Elizabeth I, Then and Now”
(co-authored with Georgianna Ziegler and Margaret Hannay)
Structures and Subjectivities: Attending to Early Modern Women
Joan E. Hartman and Adele F. Seeff, ed. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007), 219-20.
“Elizabeth I,”
“Women and Political Power,” (co-authored with Amy Gant),
“Jane Lumley,” (co-authored with Shannon Meyer)
Encyclopediaof Women in the Renaissance Diana Robin, Anne Larsen, Carole Levin, eds. (ABC-Clio, 2007), 126-29, 231-32, 298-301.
“William Middleton,” “Nicholas Faunt,” “William Cavendish, first Earl of Devonshire,” “Thomas Percy, Eighth Earl of Northumberland”
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford University Press, 2004).
“The Will of a King: How Henry VIII’s Will Determined the Future of England”
Foresight
(Spring/Summer 2004), 3.
“Introduction to the Life and Reign of Elizabeth I”
Elizabeth I, Then and Now
Georgianna Ziegler, ed. (Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003), 15-19.
“Catherine of Aragon,” “Margaret Beaufort,” “John Bale,” “Henry VIII,” “Expulsion of Mary Stuart,” “Mary I”
Reader's Guide to British History
David M. Loades, ed. (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003).
“Catherine of Valois,” “Expulsion of Jews,” “Joan of Arc,” “Margery Kempe,” “Margaret of Anjou,” “Julian of Norwich”
Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England
Ronald Fritze and William Robison, eds. (Greenwood Press, 2002), 94-95, 249-50, 284-87, 293-94, 298-300, 335-37.
“Elizabeth I,”
Tudor England: An Encyclopedia
Arthur Kinney, ed. (Garland Press, 2001), 223-26.
“Anne Askew,” “Jane Weston,” “Elizabeth I,” “Lady Jane Grey,” “Leo Africanus,” “Lavina Terlinc,” and “Philip II”
Reformations: Protestant and Catholic, 1500-1620: An Interdisciplinary Dictionary
Jo Eldridge Carney, ed. (Greenwood Press, 2000), 22-23, 127-29, 176-78, 229-30, 283, 345-46, 374-75.
“Introduction,” “Anne Askew,” “Catherine of Siena,” “Margherita Datini,” “Jane Dormer,” “Jacqeline Félice,” “Bess of Hardwick,” “Juana the Mad,” “Katherine Luther,” “Margaret of Anjou,” “Nzinga, Queen of Angola,” “Raziya, the Sultan,” “Maria de Salinas,” “Arbella Stuart,” “Lavina Teerlinc,” “Jane Weston,” “Catherine Willoughby”
Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World
Carole Levin et al., (Greenwood Press, 2000), xiii-xviii, 9-13, 32-36, 60-62, 66-70, 84-86, 116-21, 147-52, 176-80, 185-89, 223-27, 245-48, 257-60, 273-77, 278-80, 28-84, 285-90.
“The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth”
Renaissance Magazine
Vol. 4, #2 (summer, 1999), 43-48.
“Elizabeth: Romantic Film Heroine or Sixteenth-Century Queen?”
Perspectives: the American Historical Association Newsletter
Vol. 37, no. 4 (April, 1999), 29-32.
“Workshop summary: Writing Elizabeth I/Reinventing Elizabeth I”
Attending to Early Modern Women
Susan Ammussen and Adele F. Seeff, ed. (University of Delaware Press, 1998).
“Elizabeth I” and “Mary I”
Reader's Guide to Women's Studies
Eleanor B. Amico, ed. (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998), 194-95, 386-87.
“Breaking Barriers, Blending Boundaries: Women at the Cross Roads in Early Modern Historical Studies,”
Women in the Renaissance Newsletter
VI (Spring 1998), 16-20.
“Pride's Purge,” “Catherine of Braganza,” “Aphra Behn,” “Elizabeth, Electress of the Palatinate,” “Henry, Prince of Wales,” “Mary of Modena” “Arabella Stuart,”
Stuart Dictionary of History
Ronald Fritze and William Robison, eds. (Greenwood Press, 1996), 41-42, 72-73, 177-78, 228-29, 326, 421-22, 506-07.
“Lady Jane Grey”
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 132, Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers
David A. Richardson, ed. (Detroit: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 1993.
“Lady Jane Grey”
Research Guide to European Historical Biography
James Moncure, ed. (Beacham Publishers, 1993), 3209-15.
“James I”
Research Guide to European Historical Biography
James Moncure, ed. (Beacham Publishers, 1992), 995-1006.
“The European Witchcraze”
(with Elaine Kruse)
Women's Studies Encyclopedia: History, Philosophy, and Religion
Helen Tierney (Greenwood Press, 1991)468-70.
“Elizabeth I,” “The Ridolfi Plot,” “The Throckmorton Plot,” “The Queen's Safety Act,” “The Bond of Association,” “The Babington Conspiracy,” “The Essex Rebellion of 1601”
Tudor Dictionary of History
Ronald Fritze, ed. (Greenwood Press, 1991), 43-44, 62-63, 170-73, 183-85,409-10, 501-02.
“Women Scholars and Intellectuals of the English Renaissance”
Women's Studies Encyclopedia: Literature, the Arts, and Learning
Helen Tierney, ed. (Greenwood Press, 1990), 307-09.
“Renaissance Literature: Its Pleasures and Problems as a Source for Women's History”
Exemplaria
II, 2 (Fall, 1990), 697-701.
“Delia Bacon,” “Sara Josephine Baker,” Emily Greene Balch,”