David Levin is the Alice H. and Stanley G. Harris Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Theater & Performance Studies, Germanic Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, and the College. From 2011-2016 he served as the founding Director of the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, which fosters experimental collaborations between artists and scholars. From 2005-2015, he served as executive editor of the Opera Quarterly, published by Oxford University Press. He is the editor of Opera Through Other Eyes (Stanford, 1994) and the author of Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal(Princeton, 1998) and Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky (Chicago, 2007). In addition to his academic work, Professor Levin has worked as a dramaturg and collaborator for various opera houses in Germany and the United States as well for the choreographers William Forsythe and Saar Magal.