Jennifer Swartz-Levine

Dr. Jennifer A. Swartz-Levine is the Dean of the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, a Professor of English, and the Director of the Writing Center at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. Swartz-Levine’s recent publications include “Staking Salvation: The Reclamation of the Monstrous Female in Dracula” in The Midwest Quarterly (Summer 2016). This essay also won the 23rd Annual Victor J. Emmett Memorial Award from Pittsburg State University, which is the home of The Midwest Quarterly. Other recent publications include “Madwomen: Sexism as Nostalgia, or Feminism in The New Frontier” in The Ages of the Justice League: Essays on America’s Greatest Heroes in Changing Times (2017), “Approved by the Comics Code Authority: Saving America’s Youth from Juvenile Delinquency” in Historical and Pedagogical Issues in History: Insights from the Great Lakes History Conference (2017), and “She-Hulk Crash! The Evolution of Jen Walters, or How Marvel Comics Learned to Stop Worrying about Feminism and Love the Gamma Bomb” in The Ages of the Incredible Hulk (2015). She was a keynote speaker at the Batman in Popular Culture conference at Bowling Green State University in 2019 and a guest on the Justice League International: Bwah-Ha-Ha Podcast in 2020. Swartz-Levine also serves as an Executive Board member of the College English Association of Ohio.