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Department ofEnglish

Margarita Levantovskaya

Margarita Levantovskaya

Teaching Professor

Margarita (Maggie) Levantovskaya received her PhD in Literature from UC San Diego in 2013. She joined SCU after spending two years at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and a year at Lafayette College. Some of her many teaching interests include new media and technology, graphic novels, US immigration literature and film. Her research interests are in contemporary fiction, diaspora identities, and pop culture. She has published in the journal Slavic Review and has forthcoming articles in East European Jewish Affairs and Comparative Literature.

In The News

August 31, 2023

Maggie Levantovskaya published a creative nonfiction essay titled "The Memory Picture" on Longreads. The essay explores the effects of Russian's war on a Ukrainian-Jewish family living in the Bay Area. It reflects on Soviet-Jewish identity, immigration, historical family trauma, end-of-life planning and grief.

November 30, 2022

Maggie Levantovskaya discusses how College campuses that have done away with masking policies have made it clear that immunocompromised people don’t belong on their campuses.

June 2, 2022

Maggie Levantovskaya talks about why NTT faculty have fought so hard for so long to unionize and why organizing your workplace—in higher ed and beyond—is so important.