Four Yale faculty members — Andrea Aldrich, Amymarie Bartholomew, Shiro Kuriwaki, and Naomi Levine — have been named recipients of the 2024–25 Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation award, an annual prize that recognizes innovative teaching.
Naomi Levine is an assistant professor of English. Her research spans Victorian poetry and poetics, aesthetics, and the history of criticism. Her first book, “The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History,” examines 19th-century ideas about the origin of rhyme and their significance for Victorian poetry and literary studies. She is also working on a project titled “Badness in Poetry,” which explores the aesthetic category of “badness” and its implications for the study of poems. She teaches introductory classes on the history of poetry and advanced seminars in Victorian literature, including “Love and Desire in the Nineteenth Century.”
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