George Levine | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | August 27, 1931
Occupation | English literature professor |
George Levine (born 1931) is an American professor of English literature who spent his career at Rutgers University.
George Levine was born August 27, 1931, in New York City. He received his bachelor's degree from New York University in 1952 and his master's and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1953 and 1959, respectively. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 through 1955. After working as an instructor and professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, from 1959 through 1968, he moved to Rutgers University, where he taught from 1985[1] through his retirement in 2006.[2] He occupied the named chair Kenneth Burke Professor of English for his last two decades there.[1]