NINA LEVINE

Professor and Chair Department of English Language and Literature University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph.D. in English, Tulane University B.A. in English with Honors, St. Lawrence University

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT Professor of English, University of South Carolina, 2015-present Chair, Department of English, University of South Carolina, 2014-present Associate Professor of English, University of South Carolina, 1997-2014 Associate Chair, 2013-14 Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2000-2005 Affiliate Faculty, Women and Gender Studies, 1999-present Assistant Professor of English, University of South Carolina, 1991-1997

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS Practicing the City: Early Modern London on Stage (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016). Reviewed in Shakespeare Quarterly, 67.4 (2016); Shakespeare Studies, XLV (2017); Renaissance Quarterly LXX.1 (2017); Shakespeare Newsletter, 66.1 (2017); Sixteenth Century Journal 48 (2017).

Richard III: The Evans Shakespeare Series, Ed. (Boston: Wadsworth/Cengage, 2011).

A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr. and the Arts of Interpretation. Eds. Nina Levine and David Lee Miller (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009).

Women's Matters: Politics, Gender, and Nation in Shakespeare's Early History Plays (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998). Winner of the University of Delaware Press competition for best Shakespeare manuscript.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“The State of the Art: Current Critical Research,” Richard III: A Critical Guide, ed. Annaliese Connolly, Arden Early Modern Drama Guides (London: Bloomsbury Arden, 2013), pp. 73-94.

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“2 Henry VI: A Modern Perspective,” in 2 Henry VI: The New Folger Shakespeare Library, ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine (New York: Washington Square Press, Fall 2008).

“Introduction,” A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation, co- authored with David Lee Miller (New York: Fordham UP, 2009).

“Citizens’ Games: Differentiating Collaboration and Sir Thomas More,” Shakespeare Quarterly 58 (Spring 2007): 31-64.

“Extending Credit in the Henry IV Plays.” Shakespeare Quarterly 51 (Winter 2000): 403- 31; reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, vol. 90 (2006).

"Lawful Symmetry: The Politics of Treason in 2 Henry VI." Renaissance Drama n.s. 25 (1994): 197-218.

"The Case of Eleanor Cobham: Authorizing History in 2 Henry VI." Shakespeare Studies 22 (1994): 104-121.

"'Accursed womb, the bed of death': Women and the Succession in Richard III." Renaissance Papers (1992): 17-27.

BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS (INVITED)

The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News, by Stephen Wittek. Theatre Survey 58.2 (2017).

Hamlet’s Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England, by András Kiséry. Shakespeare Studies, XLV (2017): 251-6.

Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays, by Nicholas Grene and Shakespeare’s Tudor History: A Study of “Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2,” by Tom McAlindon. Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003): 1323-24

Shakespeare At the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era, by Samuel Crowl. Shakespeare Bulletin (2004): 41-42.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS (2000-2020)

“Jonson’s News,” Southeastern Renaissance Conference, Columbia, SC, October 2017.

“News on Stage: Mediating the Old New Media,” Plenary Panel Session. Shakespeare Association of America Conference, New Orleans, March 2016.

“Taking Place: The Question of the Spectator in Early Modern City Plays,” Shakespeare Association of America, St. Louis, April 2014. Levine 3

“Trading in Tongues: Language Lessons and Englishmen for My Money,” Shakespeare Association of America, Boston, April 2012.

“Plague and Performance on the Early Modern Stage,” Research Professor Lecture, Sept 2010.

“Presupposing Publics at the Globe,” Shakespeare Association of America, Chicago, April 2010.

“Making Time in City Comedy,” Shakespeare Association of America, DC, April 2009.

“Living Among the Dead,” Shakespeare Association of America, Dallas, March 2008.

“The Place of the Present: Historicizing City Comedy,” Shakespeare Association of America, San Diego, April 2007.

“Prospective Visions: What’s News in London?” South Atlantic MLA, Charlotte, NC, November, 2006.

“Probable fictions: News in Middleton.” Shakespeare Association Conference, Philadelphia, April 2006.

“Street Talk: Currencies of Reputation in The Roaring Girl,” Renaissance Society Association Conference, Cambridge, England, April 2005.

“’Citizens’ Games and The Book of Sir Thomas More.” Shakespeare Association Conference. New Orleans, April 2004.

“Collaborative Practices and Sir Thomas More.” Vox Pop Conference. University of South Carolina. February, 2004. (invited paper)

“Emulation, Language, and Consumption in Early Modern England.” Renaissance Drama Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, March 2003. (invited paper)

“Pedagogies of Emulative Performance.” Shakespeare Association of America, Minneapolis, March 2002.

“Lessons in Distinction: Pedagogy, Performance, and Language Manuals.” Shakespeare Association of America, Miami, April 2001.

“Performing Consumption in Elizabethan Language Books.” Hudson Strode Lecture Series, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. March 2001 (invited lecture).

“Canting Commodity and Stage Publicity.” Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal, April 2000. Levine 4

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS SEC (Southeastern Conference) Academic Leadership Development Program (2016-17) Pipeline to Academic Leadership, University of South Carolina (2015-16) Department of English Teacher of the Year (2013, 1998, 1993) Provost’s Arts and Humanities Grant, USC (2010) Ada B. Thomas Advising Award, USC (2010) Research Professorship, Department of English, USC (Spring 2008) Professional Development Award, USC College of Arts and Sciences (2007) Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award, USC (2001, 1993) Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowship (1998-99) Michael Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award, USC (1999)

ACADEMIC SERVICE (2000-2018) University of South Carolina College and University Bridge Fellows Selection Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2021. Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Chair Search (Chair, Dean’s appt), 2021. College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Collaborative: Search committee, 2020. Humanities Collaborative Development Committee, 2019-2020. Fall Festival of Books, Steering Committee, 2020-2021 School of Journalism Director Search (Chair, Dean’s appt), 2018-19 SEC Academic Leadership Development Program (Provost’s appt), 2016-17 Fall conference, University of Alabama (2016) Spring conference, Mississippi State (2017) Department of Political Science Chair Search (Chair, Dean’s appt), 2017 Provost’s Task Force on Class Size (Provost’s appt), 2016-17 Pipeline for Academic Leadership Fellow (Provost’s appt), 2014-15 Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Chair Search (chair), 2015 First Year Reading Experience committee (Provost’s appt), 2012-14 Ada B. Thomas Advising Award Committee, 2010-13, committee chair 2012 Faculty Salary Equity Committee (Provost’s appointment), 2005-10 Political Science Chair Search Committee (Dean’s appointment), 2005 College of Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee (elected), 2004 Career Committee (Dean’s appointment), 2003-4 Criminal Justice Chair Search Committee (Dean’s appointment), 2002 Palmetto College Task Force, Subcommittee Co-Chair (Provost’s appt.), 2001-2002 Dean’s Advisory Council (dean’s appointment), 2000-2001 Levine 5

NEH Summer Grant Nominating Committee, 2000

Department Department Chair, 2014-present Associate Chair, 2013-2014 Undergraduate Director, 2000-2005 Faculty Advisory Committee, 2011-2113, 2006-08, 1998-2000; ex officio 2000-2005, 2013-2014, 2014-present (chair) Budget Committee, 2010-2011 Undergraduate Program Committee, 1991-2013 Website and Newsletter Coordinator, 2006-2008 Judge, Department Writing Awards, 1994-1997 Search Committees: British Romanticism, 2004; Renaissance Literature and Culture (co- chair), 2002; Department Chair, Outside Search (elected member), 2001; Open Rank, Open Field position, 2000. Faculty Senator, 1992-1995.

Profession and Community Manuscript reviewer for Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare Bulletin, Fordham University Press, University of Delaware Press, and University of Illinois Press. Folger Institute Central Executive Committee—university representative (2009-present); program admissions committee (2012-present), admissions chair (2014-15). First Folio Exhibit Committee, University Libraries, 2015-16. First Folio Event: Grant Application Committee (2014-15) MLA and ADE (Association of Departments of English). ADE Summer Seminar for Department Chairs, Galveston (June 2014) ADE Summer Seminar for Department Chairs, Washington, DC (June 2015) ADE Summer Seminar for Department Chairs, New York (June 2016) ADE Summer Seminar for Department Chairs, Atlanta (June 2018) ADE Summer Seminar for Department Chairs, “Strategic Planning,” Pittsburgh (June 2019) Shakespeare Association of America Conference: Seminar organizer and leader, “Metropolitan Shakespeare,” Atlanta, 2017. Folger Institute Seminars and Conferences, Washington, D.C.: “Shakespeare in American Education, 1607-1934,” March 2007; “Performance,” dir. Robert Weimann and William Worthen, February 2003; Religion, Culture, and Recreation in Shakespeare’s England,” dir. Patrick Collinson, March 1999; "Sources for English Social and Cultural History, 1500-1640," dir. David Harris Sacks, 1996- 97; "Material London, circa 1600," Spring 1995; "Fictions of the Pose: Problems Levine 6

in the Politics of Self-Representation in Early Modern Culture," dir. by Harry Berger, Jr., D.C., Fall 1992. Session chair: Shakespeare Association Conference, “Shakespeare and Food,” Chicago, 2010. Vox Pop Conference, University of South Carolina, February 2004. Conference Co-organizer, with David Lee Miller. Redistributing Harry: A Conference in Honor of Harry Berger. Columbia, SC. October 13-15, 2006. Department seminars (organizing committee): “Regionalism,” directed by Tom Lutz, September 2000; “Lyric and the Senses,” directed by Susan Stewart, September 1999; “Consent,” directed by Elaine Scarry, September 1998. “Macbeth: Shakespeare and Polanski,” for the “Forever and a Day” Series: Public talks co-sponsored by the Nickelodeon Theater and Richland Public Library Book Club, February 2014 (invited speaker). “Corporate Shakespeare,” Community Film Forum, Nickelodeon, Theater of the Columbia Film Society, Columbia, SC. September 2000 (invited speaker).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND STUDENT MENTORING

Courses Taught Graduate Seminars: Citizen as Subject: Imagining the City in Early Modern London Shakespeare’s Tragedies Shakespeare Comedies and Histories Teaching Literature in College

Department Capstone Seminars: Shakespeare at the Movies Shakespeare and Theory

Honors Seminars: Shakespeare in Love and War Shakespeare and Film

Undergraduate: Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories Shakespeare's Tragedies English Drama to 1660 (excluding Shakespeare) Survey of British Literature I (honors and non-honors) Themes in British Literature (honors and large-section) Literature, Culture, and Writing (honors) Rhetoric and Writing (honors) Levine 7

PhD Committees (2000-2018) Fayaz Kabani (chair): Performance of Masculinity in Early Modern Drama (defended 2018) Elisha Sircy (member): Jesting and Humor in Early Modern Death (defended 2017) Emily Rendek (member): Bound Bodies: Book Use and the Early Modern Reader, 1450- 1660 (defended 2016) Emily Murray (member): Becoming, Being, and Beyond “Wife” on the Early Modern Stage (defended 2016) Anthony Young (member): The Political Aspects of James Shirley (defended 2003) John Carpenter (member): Interpreting Power Politics in Early Modern Literature (defended 2002) Caitlin Jorgenson (member): Procession as a Social Trope in English Renaissance Literature (defended 2000)

MA Committees (chair) Mary Learner: Circulating the Female in the Marketplace of Print (2013) Elizabeth Philippelli: Race and Othello (2007) Kate Nugent: Queen Elizabeth and Elizabethan Lyrics (2005) Catherine Speth: Copyhold and Claims to Property in Shakespeare’s Richard II (2003) Sammantha Bremer: Transformation and Transgression in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2001) Ronald Miller: Self-Serving Quests: Order and Dominance in Merchant of Venice (2001)

Undergraduate Theses (chair) Dana Doggett (honors 2014) Jacqueline Ahearn (honors 2013) Elhaam Borhanian (B.A. distinction 2013) Mary Cothonneau Eldridge (B.A. distinction 2012) Tracy Harvin (B.A. distinction 2011) Leah Eleazar (B.A. distinction 2011) Graham Culbertson (Honors, 2005) Nicole Zokan (Honors, 2002) Eric Liebetrau (Honors, 2002) Pamela Markham (Honors, 2001) Leigh Andrews (Honors, 2000)