Associate Professor, Theater Studies
Tisch School of the Arts
Laura Levine is an Associate Professor of Theatre Studies in Drama at Tisch where she teaches courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance literature and culture, memoir writing and autobiographical performance. She did her doctoral work in English at The Johns Hopkins University and holds an MA and MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University and a BA from Bryn Mawr College.
Her first book, Men in Women's Clothing: Anti-theatricality and Effeminization 1579-1642, examines anxieties about boy actors on the Renaissance stage. She is at work on a book about anxieties about witchcraft during the early modern period and a series of essays about ballet. She also writes fiction. She is the recipient of grants from NEH, The Mary Ingraham Bunting Association, the Folger Shakespeare Library and is a 2010 winner of NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award.
