Faculty

Aidan Levy, Ph.D., MFA

Assistant Professor of English Joined USJ:
Academic Degrees Ph.D., Columbia University
M.A., Columbia University
M.F.A., LIU-Brooklyn
B.A., Brown University

Prior to joining USJ, Professor Levy was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Research

  • 20th-Century American Literature
  • African American Literature
  • Jazz Studies
  • Multi-Ethnic Literature
  • American Studies
  • Sound Studies
  • Biography

Affiliations

  • Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow
  • Modern Language Association
  • Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies

Courses

  • The Art of Effective Writing
  • American Literature
  • African American Literature
  • Literature of the Americas
  • Literary Texts and Critical Methods
  • Jazz Fictions
  • Creative Writing: Fiction

Awards

  • American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
  • PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, PEN/America Literary Awards (longlisted)
  • Robert Palmer-Helen Oakley Dance Award for Excellence in Writing, Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards
  • Biography/Autobiography of the Year, Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards
  • Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), Certificate of Merit, Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research in Recorded Jazz