Carole Levin

Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska. She is the author of a number of books including The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power, The Reign of Elizabeth I, and the forthcoming Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, co-authored with John Watkins. She did some of the research and writing of Dreaming the English Renaissance while on National Endowment for the Humanities long term fellowships at the Newberry Library in Chicago and at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. She is the co-curator of the exhibit “To Sleep Perchance to Dream” up at the Folger Shakespeare Library, February–May, 2009.