George R. Levine papers
Dates
- 1965-1996
Creator
- Levine, George R. (Person)
Language of Materials
Terms of Access
Copyright
Extent
.83 Linear Feet (2 manuscript boxes)
Overview
Biographical Note
George R. Levine, a native of Boston, graduated from Tufts University in 1951 and received an M.A. in English literature from Columbia in 1952. From 1952-54 he served in Korea in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He returned to Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature in 1961. He served as Instructor of English at both Columbia and Northwestern universities before beginning as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1963.
In 1969 Prof. Levine was awarded a Fulbright Lecturing Award. He spent the 1969-1970 academic year at the University of Cologne, W. Germany, lecturing on the literature of the Restoration and the 18th Century. His other areas of specialization were in lyric poetry and the relationship of literature and the Arts.
Prof. Levine was promoted to full professor in 1970 and received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1974. From 1975 to 1981 he served as Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters.
Prof. Levine served on or chaired numerous committees at the University and in the community. Of relevance to this collection, he chaired the Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Privileges from 1968-1969 where he reviewed the handling of tenure cases in the Classics Department. In 1982-83 he chaired the Task Group to Review the Office of Cultural Affairs, whose role was to integrate and develop University and community cultural life. In 1995-96 he chaired a Provostial Committee on the Future of the Arts at U.B.
Prof. Levine retired from the University at Buffalo in 2001.
Arrangement
- Literary Manuscripts
- Faculty Senate Committee on Tenure and Privileges
- Task Group to Review the Office of Cultural Affairs
- Committee on the Future of the Arts at University at Buffalo
Acquisition Information
Accruals and Additions
Processing Information
Creator
- Levine, George R. (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid for the George R. Levine papers
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Karen Spencer.
- Date
- 2010
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
Repository Details
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