Caroline Levine, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will be giving a presentation entitled "On the Necessity (and Virtue) of Generalization: Victorian Realist Fiction and Criticism Now."
Caroline Levine is professor and chair of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2015), Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts (2007), and The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt (2003). Her research and teaching interests include Victorian literature and culture, formalism, realism, narrative theory, world literature, and the relations between art and politics; her work and teaching aim to bridge the gap between historical-political approaches to culture and the more traditional techniques of literary formalism.
