Carole Levin has been at the University of Nebraska since 1998. Her areas of specialization are late medieval and early modern English cultural and women's history. She was recently named Willa Cather Professor of History. Carole held a fellowship at the Newberry Library from the Monticello College Foundation and was a long term NEH fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her book, The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (1994), was listed by readers of the magazine Lingua Franca as one of the ten best scholarly books of the last decade. Carole has recently edited two books on queens in early modern England: Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman (2003) and High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations (2003).
Carole's other publications include The Reign of Elizabeth I (2002), Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World (2000), Propaganda in the English Reformation: Villainous and Heroic Images of King John (1988), and several edited collections, including Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women (1995) and Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama (1991).