Neil Levi                                                                 english @ drew
    Associate Professor of English
  • Office: Sitterly House 308
  • Campus Extension: 3821
  • Email:  nlevi@drew.edu
Degrees:   B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy, University of Western Australia, 1989; M.Phil. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1994; Ph.D., Columbia University, 2000. 

Arrived at Drew: 2000 

Areas of Specialization: Twentieth century British and comparative literature, critical theory, the Holocaust.

Selected courses taught at Drew:  COLLEGE: First Year Seminar: The Culture of the 1970s; ENGL 4/ Writing for the Discipline of English; ENGL 9/ Literary Analysis; ENGL 20/Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition;  ENGL 40/ Approaches to the Holocaust: Literature, Film, and Theory; ENGL 119/ Beckett and Brecht; ENGL 121/ Comparative Critical Theory and Practice; ENGL 121/ Foundations in Modernism: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud; ENGL 123/ Intensive Reading: Joyce’s Ulysses; ENGL 140/ Open Topics in Literature: Modernism and Catastrophe;  ENGL 174/ Advanced Literary Studies;  ENGL 174/ Modernism and Postmodernism; 
GRADUATE SCHOOL: ENGLG 826: Critical Theory and the Problem of the Modern; ENGLG 841: 20th-Century Studies: Modernist Novel

Awards and Fellowships
Sesquicentenary Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia, 2003-2006

Selected Recent Publications:
Modernism, Dirt, and the Jews (Fordham University Press, forthcoming).
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The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings, with Michael Rothberg (Edinburgh University Press/Rutgers University Press, 2003).
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Special Issue on "Antipodean Modern" Australian Cultural History, Vol 25 (2006) co-edited with Tim Dolin.
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“The Persistence of the Old Regime: Late Modernist Form in the Postmodern Period (Jameson, Badiou, Mosley),” Modernism and Theory: A Critical Debate, edited by Stephen Ross (Routledge, 2008).
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“Carl Schmitt and the Question of the Aesthetic,” New German Critique, volume 101 (Summer 2007): 27-43.
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““No Sensible Comparison?” The Place of the Holocaust In Australia’s History Wars,” History and Memory Volume 19, Number 1 (2007): 124-156.
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“Time, Culture, Nation: Australian Perspectives on Modernism, Modernity, and Modernisation,” Australian Cultural History, vol. 25 (2006): 1-10.
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“Auschwitz and the Remains of Theory: Toward an Ethics of the Borderland,” (with Michael Rothberg) Symploke Volume 11, Nos. 1-2 (2003): 15-32.
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“’See that Straw? That’s a Straw’: Anti-Semitism and Narrative Form in Ulysses,” Modernism/Modernity Volume 9, Number 3 (2002): 375-388.
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“‘Judge for Yourselves!”—The ‘Degenerate Art’ Exhibition as Political Spectacle,” OCTOBER No. 85 (Spring 1998): 41-64.

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