Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin and Co-Director of the University’s Program in British Studies. She has published in the areas of Victorian feminism, the development of the historical profession in nineteenth-century England and, more recently, on the history of the British Empire. Her recent books include Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (New York, Routledge, 2003), Gender and Empire: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004) and The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset (Harlow: Longman Pearson, 2007; also in an Italian translation). A collection co-edited with Alison Bashford, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She is at present writing a book on colonial nakedness.
Philippa Levine est professeur à l’université du Texas, Austin, et co-directrice du programme d’études britanniques. Ses travaux de recherches portent sur le féminisme à l’époque victorienne, sur le développement de la discipline et de la communauté historienne en Grande-Bretagne au XIXe siècle, enfin, sur l’histoire de l’Empire britannique. Elle a publié récemment Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (New York, Routledge, 2003) ; Gender and Empire: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004) et The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset (Harlow, Longman Pearson, 2007). Elle co-dirige avec Alison Bashford le Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics.