Background
Karen L. Levenback was born on November 11, 1951, in New York City, New York, United States. She is the daughter of Gerald and Gloria Adele (Levin) Levenback.
100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States
The State University of New York at Stony Brook where Karen Levenback received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, United States
Cornell University where Karen Levenback studied.
3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, United States
Georgetown University where Karen Levenback received her Master of Arts degree.
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The University of Maryland, Baltimore, where Karen Levenback received her Doctor of Philosophy degree.
University of Paris, Paris, France
The University of Paris where Karen Levenback studied.
620 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC 20064, United States
The Catholic University of America where Karen Levenback received her Master of Library and Information Science degree.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 541 24, Greece
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where Karen Levenback studied.
(This study focuses on Virginia Woolf's war consciousness ...)
This study focuses on Virginia Woolf's war consciousness and how her sensitivity to representations of the Great War in the popular press and authorized histories affected both the development of characters in her fiction and her non-fictional and personal writings.
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1999
archivist educator Librarian author
Karen L. Levenback was born on November 11, 1951, in New York City, New York, United States. She is the daughter of Gerald and Gloria Adele (Levin) Levenback.
Karen Levenback began her studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972. Then she studied at Cornell University in 1974-1975 and obtained a Master of Arts degree at Georgetown University in 1975. Later on, in 1981, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. In 1982 she attended Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and Paris Diderot University (now part of the University of Paris) in 1983-1984. Levenback also got a Master of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in 2004.
Karen Levenback, after receiving a doctor's degree in 1981, began her teaching career. She joined Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece, as an instructor in English as a foreign language and held this position till 1983. During those years, she was also an ombudsperson and member of the board of directors of Thessaloniki Players. Her teaching also includes work as an instructor in English at the Institute of Applied Languages in Paris, France, in 1984. That year she began serving as an assistant professorial lecturer in English at George Washington University where she worked till 2000.
Her teaching career also includes work as a lecturer at Montgomery College in 1995-1996. In addition, she was a guest lecturer at other institutions, including the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Southern Colorado (now Colorado State University-Pueblo), and Smithsonian Institution.
From 2000 till 2002 Levenback worked as a secretary of the Nuclear-Free Takoma Park Committee, from 2007 till 2009 as an archivist at Humanities DC, and from 2005 till 2010 as a secretary of Arts and Humanities Commission of the City of Takoma Park. In 2008 she joined the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. as a reference librarian-archivist and in 2009 Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America as an archivist-librarian.
The most significant work in Karen Levenback's life was the research of Virginia Woolf's life and writings. In 1994-1999 she edited Woolf Studies Annual and in 1999 she became a book review editor of Virginia Woolf Miscellany. In 2008 she joined the International Virginia Woolf Society as well.
Her interest in Virginia Woolf and World War I grew from her interest in each and her sense of each as a touchstone to life itself. In recognizing and highlighting the blurred lines between civilians and combatants, peace and war, Woolf, Levenback felt, spoke not only to her own time and place in history but to those of modern people.
Written by Levenback, the book Virginia Woolf and the Great War (1999) filled a need and was begun at a time when civilians and particularly women had yet to find a recognized voice in war studies and war literature. It surveys Virginia Woolf's fiction of the period between the First and Second World Wars with the aim of charting the evolution of Virginia Woolf's war consciousness. Levenback's book thus rereads as war literature most of the works upon which Woolf's reputation has been built and makes a case for Woolf as a "war theorist." One recurrent and fascinating theme in Levenback's book is the way Woolf's fiction explores the far-reaching effects of the war in the postwar world.
In addition to her book, Levenback contributed to other works, including Virginia Woolf and War: Fiction, Reality, and Myth, edited by Mark Hussey. She also contributed articles and reviews to periodicals, including Milton Quarterly and Athenian.
(This study focuses on Virginia Woolf's war consciousness ...)
1999Karen Levenback is a member of the Modern Language Association of America and Amnesty International.
Karen Levenback married Michael J. Neufeld on June 14, 1994.