Cornell Research

Expertise

Victorian literature and culture; literary and cultural theory; world literature; relations between art and politics; narrative theory; detective fiction; environmental humanities

Current Research Interest

Rethinking the relations between artistic and social forms; representing infrastructure and habit in literature; art and the state; sustainability

Distinction

Media Ecology Association Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture for Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
Modern Language Association James Russell Lowell Prize for Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
Perkins Prize for Best Book in Narrative Studies for The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt

Selected Publications

Levine, Caroline. Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. 

Levine, Caroline. Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell, 2007.

Cornell Research Website Article

Forms: Their Rhythms, Shapes, Designs