Nina Levine

Associate Professor

Office: 517 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2281
levinen@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Tulane University, 1991

Specialization Areas

• Shakespeare
• early modern literature and culture

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 405: Shakespeare’s Tragedies
• ENGL 406: Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories
• ENGL 490:  Shakespeare the Movie
• ENGL 711: Shakespeare I: Comedies and Histories

Current Research Project(s)

• Practicing the City: Early Modern London on Stage: a book-length study about the circulation of urban practices in dramatic production
• Richard III, an edition for Johns Hopkins UP

Books

• A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation, co-edited with David Lee Miller (Fordham, forthcoming Spring 2009).
• Women’s Matters: Politics, Gender, and Nation in Shakespeare’s Early History Plays (Delaware, 1998).

Articles and Chapters

• “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, forthcoming).
• “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.
• "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.