David Levin

David Levin’s work focuses on the aesthetics and politics of performance in opera, theater, and cinema. Levin is the editor of Opera Through Other Eyes, and the author of Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal and Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinksy. He has also worked extensively as a dramaturg for various opera and ballet productions in Germany and the United States. David Levin presently serves as Senior Adviser to the Provost for Arts and the Chair of the Arts Steering Committee. Levin is also a member of the Faculty Steering Committee of the University’s Center in Delhi. For the past five years, he has served as a Visiting Professor of Performance Studies at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Oslo in Norway. He has been a guest professor of Theater and Performance Studies at various universities in Germany including the Free University of Berlin and the University of Mainz; he regularly team-teaches courses on opera, theater, and performance at the University of Konstanz with Professor Christopher Wild (Chicago) and Professor Juliane Vogel (Konstanz).