Cristine Levenduski received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 1989 and has held a joint appointment in the Department of English and the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory since 1988. Prior to that, she was on the faculty of the Humanities Program at the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota, where she also received a B.S. and M.A. in English Literature and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies. Her primary research is in early American literature and culture, and her publications include Peculiar Power: A Quaker Woman Preacher in Eighteenth-Century America (Smithsonian, 1996). She teaches courses on early American literature, American Studies, material culture and popular culture.

Dean Levenduski joined the College office in 2002. As Senior Associate Dean of Faculty, she oversees the hiring process and the tenure and promotion process for faculty in the Arts and Sciences as well as faculty development initiatives in the College. She serves as the College office liaison to the College Faculty Council and to the College Affirmative Action Committee.