Associate Professor of English
Office Location: HE 426
Phone Number: (262) 472-5047
Email Address: levye@uww.edu

Degrees:
B.A., Mount Holyoke College
M.A., Phil.
Ph.D., Yale University

Areas of Teaching:
Renaissance Literature, Early Modern Literature and Culture, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Fat Studies

Courses Taught:
Renaissance and Restoration, Revolution and Restoration, Shakespeare, Critical Writing in the Field of English, World of Ideas, English Survey I, Senior Seminar, English Composition

Select Presentations/Publications:
The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity: Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
"Fattening Queer History." In Fat Studies Reader, edited by Sondra Solovay and Esther D. Rothblum.
"Making the Impossible: Imagining Alternative Experiences of Pain." In Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics, edited by Anne Kimberly Myers, 288-96. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2007.
"'So Much Meat': Gloria Anzaldaua, the Mind/Body Split, and Exerting Control Over My Fat Body." In Entre Mundos/among Worlds: New Perspectives on Gloria E. Anzaldaua, edited by AnaLouise Keating, 163-70. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Reissued in paperback, 2008.
"History Straight and Narrow: Marvell, Mary Fairfax, and the Critique of Sexual Sequence." In Postmodern Medievalism, edited by Richard Utz and Jesse G. Swan. Studies in Medievalism, 181-92. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005.
"Burning in Sodom: Sodomy as the Moral State of Damnation in John Bale's The Image of Both Churches." Reformation 9 (2004): 67-99.
"The Religious Warrior: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza's Correspondence with Rodrigo de Calderon." In Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700 Form and Persuasion, edited by Jane Couchman and Ann Crabb. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World, 263-74. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Co., 2005. Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women for a collaborative project published in 2005.
"Breaking Down the Walls That Divide: Anti-Polemicism in the Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." In John Donne and the Protestant Reformation, New Perspectives, edited by Mary Arshagouni Papazian, 273-92. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
"John Donne's Fear of Rumours in the Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and the Death of John Kind," Notes and Quotes 245.4 (Dec. 2000): 481-3.
"Goe forth ye daughters of Sion": Transferring Divine Authority from the King to the Church in the 1625 Sermon Preached at Denmark House," John Donne Journal 16 (1998): 163-73.
"In Defense of the Jacobean Settlement: The Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions," Renaissance Papers (1997): 63-74.

Web Publication:
"The Black Knight" for The Site of Cultural Stress from Reformation to Revolution (2004), Folger Shakespeare Library Website at http://www.folger.edu/institute/swindesign/theatre_provocations_bknight.html , last accessed January 26, 2008.

Website:
http://facstaff.uww.edu/levye/