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CAROLINE LEVANDER

Levander Ph.D, Rice University
Professor of English
Director, Humanities Research Center

Office: Herring Hall 323
Phone: 713-348-3203
Email: clevande@rice.edu
Website: Dr. Levander's Website


 
 

Professor Levander is the director of the Humanities Research Center. She is the author of Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W.E.B. DuBois (Duke University Press); Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press); and is co-editor of Hemispheric American Studies: Essays Beyond the Nation, and The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader (Rutgers University Press). She has published articles in American Literature, American Literary History, and other journals. Professor Levander teaches a wide range of courses in American literature and culture, including postnationalist American Studies, hemispheric Americas, and race and liberalism.