Gary Levine is an associate professor and directs AU's first-year composition program. A revised version of his University of Iowa Ph.D. dissertation, The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature 1964-1939, was published in January 2003 by Routledge. He has presented scholarship on topics as diverse as medieval British literature and the post-colonial Filipino novel,
with the common thread the relationship between economics and literature. At AU he has taught the American Literary Experience, Advanced Composition, Great Books, The Modern Novel, The Bible as Literature, and lots of first-year composition courses.
In addition to the Ph.D., he holds an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.