Dr. Levinson is Associate Professor of Film and Director of the Honors Program at Babson College. She has previously taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clark University, Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Rencontres Cinematographiques Franco-Americaines in Avignon, France. She was 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. In addition, she has curated film series for a number of organizations including International Film Seminars (Flaherty Film Seminar), the Celebration of Black Cinema, and the Davis Museum and Cultural Center. Dr. Levinson is the author of articles and chapters on film and cultural studies, and is working on a book on the cultural history of the American success myth.

Areas of expertise include: Film and Cultural History, American Studio Film, Arts Advocacy, Independent Film and Narrative Theory.