Julie Levinson is Associate Professor of Film and Director of the Honors Program at Babson College. She previously taught at M.I.T., Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Rencontres Cinématographiques Franco-Américaines in Avignon, France.
In addition to her academic appointments, she was the Curator of Film at the Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston, Director of Programming at the Boston Film/Video Foundation, and Curator/Producer of Mixed Signals cable television series, produced by the New England Foundation for the Arts. She has curated film series for a number of other organizations including International Film Seminars, the Celebration of Black Cinema, and the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College. Prof. Levinson has been a panelist and festival judge for, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bunting Institute at Harvard College, and the New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Vermont Councils on the Arts.
She is the author of The American Success Myth on Film (Palgrave MacMillan) and the editor of the forthcoming Alexander Payne: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi). Her other published work has focused on topics including genre and gender, documentary film, narrative theory, and metafiction.