UNIONDALE, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 21, 2025 / Marquis Who's Who honors Dr. Michele Levy for her expertise in comparative literature. With nearly 50 years of professional experience, Dr. Levy is a celebrated scholar, researcher and author of comparative literature, having shared her expertise at various universities, including North Carolina A&T State University, Xavier University of Louisiana, St. Mary's Dominican College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Having discovered her love for books at an early age, Dr. Levy was reading voraciously in the adult section of her local library when she was just seven years old. Her love of literature followed her through all her later years. Her last course for her Bachelor of Arts was Medieval Latin, taught by a professor who had first studied classical languages at Harvard. Their one-on-one translations from traveling nuns and poets rekindled her passion for Latin and a desire to become a classicist. But Classics now required Greek, too. She was accepted, instead, into the Curriculum of Comparative Literature at UNC, a discipline about which she knew nothing. Yet, it combined her great passions-- literature, languages, and history-and allowed her to shape an immensely rewarding career.
Dr. Levy: The Student
Instrumental to Dr. Levy's professional successes have been her own academic achievements as a student. She began her studies at Bryn Mawr College, but left for work and study in Washington, D.C., where she received a bachelor's degree in history, with honors, from the George Washington University in 1970. Dr. Levy then pursued both a master's degree and a doctorate, both in comparative literature, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1973 and 1980, respectively.
Throughout her studies, Dr. Levy developed her expertise in English, French and Russian literatures from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, later adding postcolonial and Balkan studies.
Dr. Levy: The Professor
Dr. Levy's professional journey has included various roles as an educator, first as a teaching assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the fall of 1980, she taught a course on "From Tolstoy to Tolkien," at Dominican College in New Orleans. She served as professor and later chair of the English Department at Xavier University of Louisiana from 1981 to 2002, where her leadership and dedication to excellence were evident. During this time, she guided the department and helped the university through numerous academic advancements and mentored both undergraduate and graduate students, many of whom have gone on to attain significant success in their fields and communities.
In 2002, Dr. Levy left Xavier University to become chair of English at North Carolina A&T State University, where she taught until retiring in 2015. Here, too, she helped shape both the department and the institution, while continuing to work closely with students.
Professional and Personal Success
Dr. Levy takes great pride in having taught at two historically Black universities, as well as having participated in a number of specially funded grant programs, such as The Bard College National Summer Seminars in Writing for High School Students, and workshops in mentoring and course design sponsored by the NAACP and the United Negro College Fund. She also led several Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities summer programs for high school language arts teachers. Likewise, she deepened her expertise in Dostoevsky with a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Harvard. She credits her success to her passion for her field and a lot of good fortune.
Since retiring from North Carolina A&T State University, Dr. Levy has held the title of professor emerita while continuing to write and teach. In 2020, she published "Anna's Dance: A Balkan Odyssey," a novel that reflects her deep engagement with Balkan history and literature. She is currently working on a second novel, reviewing mostly Balkan literature for "World Literature Today," and moderating self-designed literature courses for retired adults. In her free time, she enjoys walking, Balkan dance, and being in nature, as well as interacting with her children and seven grandchildren, all of whom live nearby. Looking to the future, she intends to keep writing, reading, and teaching about complex issues in order to better understand the human condition.
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