Tobe Levin

Tobe Levin Freifrau von Gleichen (born February 16, 1948), a multi-lingual scholar, translator, editor and activist, is an Associate of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University; a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford; an activist against female genital mutilation (FGM) and professor of English Emerita at the University of Maryland, University College.

Having received her PhD in 1979 from Cornell University, she is most known for combining her advocacy against FGM with her academic scholarship in comparative literature. She has published peer-reviewed and popular articles and book chapters, edited four books, launched UnCUT/VOICES Press in 2009 and founded ''Feminist Europa Review of Books'' (1998-2010). Her most notable works to date are ''Empathy and Rage. Female Genital Mutilation in African Literature'' and '' Waging Empathy. Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and the Global Movement to Ban FGM.'' Alice Walker expressed appreciation for the text that shows worldwide solidarity with the novelist's literary abolition efforts in the early nineties. Levin has also teamed up with Maria Kiminta and photographer Britta Radike to publish a memoir and sourcebook, ''Kiminta. A Maasai's Fight against Female Genital Mutilation.'' Provided by Wikipedia