Walter Levy

Walter Levy is Professor Emeritus of English, at Pace University, in New York City. Levy has written on the environment, literature, and drama. His current interest is food and imagination in literature and the arts. He particularly searches for picnics in literature, art, music, and cookery.

Currently, Levy is preparing a special issue on the theme of food and the literary imagination for the College English Association’s journal The Critic.

Levy’s publications include Listening to Earth: American Environmental Literature (Longman Publishers, 2005). He is co-author of Lives Through Literature: A Thematic Anthology, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall 2000; Modern Drama: Selected Plays 1879 to the Present, Prentice Hall, 1999; and co-author of Green Perspectives: Thinking and Writing About the Environment and Nature in the United States 1850- 1992, HarperCollins, 1994. He is a contributor to the Scribner’s Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (2003) and the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink (2004).

He is a presenter at numerous conferences of the Modern Language Association, the Association for the Study of Food and Culture, College English Association (currently a board member), Association of Departments of English, and the Association of Advisors in English.

Since 1996, Levy has committed himself to local and regional activities. He is president of the Rondout-Esopus Land conservancy; a board member of the Friends of Historic Rochester; and a member of the Town of Rochester Historic Preservation Commission. Levy was appointed to the Town of Rochester Planning and Zoning Committee, and is chair of the sub-committee on Rural Character.