[2] Levine assumed her position as David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities at Cornell University in 2016, and worked as the Picket Family Chair of the English Department from 2018 to 2021.
[8] The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (2023) has been excerpted[9] and critiqued in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
[11] She co-founded the Mellon World Literatures Workshop at the University of Wisconsin Madison[12] In addition to her scholarship, Levine is an activist and public intellectual working to address climate change and sustainability.
She is member of TIAA-Divest and Citizens Climate Lobby and was a key leader in the successful effort to make Cornell University divest from fossil fuels.
Multiple shapes, patterns, and arrangements, overlapping and colliding, generate complex and unpredictable social landscapes that challenge and unsettle conventional analytic models in literary and cultural studies.
Building on the theory developed in Forms, Levine shows how formalist methods can be used in the fight for climate justice.