Ellen Levy (Ph.D. Vanderbilt University 2004) is Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute and author of Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle between the Arts (Oxford UP, 2011). She writes about the connections among modern poetry, visual art, theater, and dance, and is currently at work on a book about artist Ray Johnson.

Dr. Levy was instrumental in bringing the Ali Tayar Archive to the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT.