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Iraq and Afghan Vets Tell Writer "War is Not a Game"
Nan Levinson (born 1949 in Syracuse, NY) is an American writer, journalist and teacher. Her writing focuses on civil and human rights, military culture, the arts, and communication technology. Her books include War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built and Outspoken: Free Speech Stories. Levinson was the first U.S. correspondent for the Index on Censorship.
Contents
- Iraq and Afghan Vets Tell Writer War is Not a Game
- Writing
- Teaching
- Nonprofit management
- Related activities
- Education
- References
Writing
Nan Levinson’s reporting, commentary, and fiction have appeared in print and online platforms including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Women’s Review of Books, In These Times, Boston Phoenix, SuperLawyer, American Way, tomdispatch, and Huffington Post, where she is a featured blogger on military culture and peace work. She was on the masthead of the London-based magazine Index on Censorship from 1988 to 1995, and speaks in forums on free expression and political activism around the U.S.
Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, Levinson’s first book, examines the state of free expression in America from 1985 to 2000 through the stories of 20 people caught in free speech controversies. The book was well received by reviewers.
War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built, her 2014 book, follows Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), Veterans For Peace (VFP), Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) and other military-related war resisters who banded together to stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Teaching
Levinson is a lecturer in English at Tufts University, where she has taught journalism and fiction writing since 1988. Previously, she taught writing at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Bentley University and was a guest lecturer in arts management at Sangamon State University (now University of Illinois Springfield).
Nonprofit management
From 1973 to 1983, Levinson worked in nonprofit management, principally in arts administration. She was executive director of the British American Arts Association/US; assistant program director of state programs at the National Endowment for the Arts; coordinator of community services at the Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst; and associate producer at Windham Summer Repertory Theatre. She also worked with Foxfire Vermont and the Instituto Norte Andino de Ciencias Sociales in Colombia.
Related activities
Somerville Arts Council Advisory Board
Truth Commission on Conscience in War
Free Expression Policy Project Advisory Board
Publicity Committee for Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan
Tufts Part-time Faculty Organizing Committee
Tufts University Film and Media Studies Executive Board
Amnesty International US/USSR Coordination Group
Twice named to the Heroes List of the Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression.
Education
University of Rochester, BA in history
School for International Training Graduate Institute, Master’s of International Administration
University of Manchester (England), visiting student