Caroline Levine

Caroline Levine (born December 12, 1970) is an American scholar and literary critic. Quotes "The Activist Humanist w/ Caroline Levine" (2025) "The Activist Humanist w/ Caroline Levine", MRonline (October 18, 2025) I feel like my intellectual life is a little bit of a history of my discipline, or it’s a story about the discipline. I studied literary studies as an undergraduate in the late 1980s and early 1990s when deconstruction was all the rage. We were looking for gaps, which we called aporia, like watching language disintegrate and collide with itself. Everything was coming apart. We’ve had these horizontalist movements in the last 20 or 30 years that have celebrated the idea that everybody belongs in every movement, and there’s no leadership and there’s no hierarchy. There’s another place where I think not all hierarchies are bad. I haven’t taught Victorian poetry in like a dozen years because students don’t know what it is. They don’t know why they should care. They don’t. You know, those two words are not words students love: Victorian and poetry. External links Category:1970 births Category:Living people Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Literary critics Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:Princeton University alumni Category:University of London alumni Category:Cornell University faculty Category:People from New York (state) Category:Women born in the 1970s