Robert S. Levine is a scholar of American and African American literature.

He is currently Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park.

from Columbia University in 1975 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1981.

[1][2] His research focuses on 19th-century American literature, especially on the life and works of Frederick Douglass.

[3] He sits on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals including American Literary History and Journal of American Studies and serves as General Editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature.