Carla Kaplan Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature c.kaplan@neu.edu Expertise African American literature and history, American literature, feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies, literary theory, modern literature and culture Carla Kaplan in the Press Article Alice Walker Has ‘No Regrets’ Carla Kaplan, a professor of American literature at Northeastern University who has written about Walker’s work, said she is one of many influential progressive figures who have made profoundly contentious statements. “The question becomes, what do we do with one another when these moments happen,” Kaplan said. “One answer is that we cancel one another. […] Article Local writers will share National Endowment for the Humanities grant Other New England recipients and their projects include Yale University lecturer Edward Ball, who is writing about a Reconstruction-era klansman; Nicholas Basbanes, of North Grafton, on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Wesleyan University professor Andrew Curran on Denis Diderot; Smith College professor Michael Gorra on William Faulkner and the Civil War; Trinity College professor Christopher Hager on […] Article Uncle Sam wants YOU to read ‘popular’ scholarly books Here is a full list of the newly named Public Scholars, their professional affiliations, book titles and grant amounts: • Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo, “Animals in the History of the United States,” $50,400. • Edward Ball, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., “Constant LeCorgne (1832-1886): Biography of a Klansman,” $50,400. • Nicholas Basbanes, independent scholar, North […] Article What the 1920s tell us about Dolezal and racial illogic What does it mean to identify across race lines and to claim a racial identity disconnected from background or biology? Why does so-called reverse passing (white to black) generate such extraordinary attention and controversy? The Rachel Dolezal case reveals a conundrum in race debates that remains unresolved. Article Jill Lepore’s ‘Secret History of Wonder Woman’ Who could save America from fascism in the 1940s? Feminists, according to Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston, in the form of Sapphists, coeds and Amazons. Marston created Wonder Woman to demonstrate how “feminine rule” would look and to cash in on the explosive popularity of comics, read by staggering numbers of people in the […] Article The colorful world of comics Carla Kaplan, a professor of American literature at Northeastern University, is the 2014 winner of the Boston Authors Club’s Julia Ward Howe Award for “Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance” (HarperCollins). “Miss Anne” is a term applied to white women who played a role in the Harlem Renaissance, some of […] Article New York Daily News Google Doodle honors ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ author Zora Neale Hurston, luminary of the Harlem Renaissance Hurston, best known for her seminal novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” was born in Florida on Jan. 7, 1891, but she moved to New York in 1925 with only $1.50 to her name. She soon became friends with Langston Hughes and Dorothy West. Carla Kaplan, a professor of American Literature at Northeastern University and […] Article White Women in Harlem’s Renaissance Carla Kaplan, a professor of American literature at Northeastern University, offers a joint biography of six largely forgotten women (winnowed down from five dozen whom she researched) in “Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance” (Harper, $28.99). The convention-bending women included philanthropists, educators, heiresses and novelists who figured in the Harlem Renaissance of […] Article ‘Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women of the Black Renaissance’ by Carla Kaplan There may be no clearer embodiment of that idealism than the Misses Anne of Carla Kaplan’s intriguing new book: the white women who in one fashion or another decided to make the Harlem Renaissance their own. Kaplan, the Davis distinguished professor of American literature at Northeastern University, admits that it was a minuscule group, largely […] Article Introducing ‘Miss Anne,’ The White Women Of A Black Renaissance Ten years ago, literary scholar Carla Kaplan released an acclaimed edition of the letters of Zora Neale Hurston. In the course of researching Hurston’s life, Kaplan became curious about the white women who were in Harlem in the same period as Hurston, women who risked family exile and social ostracism to be part of the […] Carla Kaplan for Northeastern Global News Northeastern celebrates arrival of leading women’s studies journal Northeastern celebrates arrival of leading women’s studies journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society will be based in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities for the next five years. Uncovering ‘Miss Anne’ of the 1920s Uncovering ‘Miss Anne’ of the 1920s Delivering the annual Robert D. Klein Lecture, English professor Carla Kaplan discussed the complicated story of white women who passed for black in the 1920s. What stories? Whose perspective? What stories? Whose perspective? An international panel of museum professionals, philosophers and artists trade ideas on preserving and illuminating identity in a global, electronic world. NU Launches Gender Matters Lecture Series NU Launches Gender Matters Lecture Series Contact: John Natale at 617-373-2802 What: The Northeastern University Women’s Studies Program will launch its 2007-08 “Gender Matters at Northeastern” lecture series this Thursday. The series will feature distinguished guest speakers from Northeastern who specialize in the convergence of gender, race, class, ethnicity, and religion. Who: Carla Kaplan, Northeastern’s Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature, […]
Article Alice Walker Has ‘No Regrets’ Carla Kaplan, a professor of American literature at Northeastern University who has written about Walker’s work, said she is one of many influential progressive figures who have made profoundly contentious statements. “The question becomes, what do we do with one another when these moments happen,” Kaplan said. “One answer is that we cancel one another. […]
Article Local writers will share National Endowment for the Humanities grant Other New England recipients and their projects include Yale University lecturer Edward Ball, who is writing about a Reconstruction-era klansman; Nicholas Basbanes, of North Grafton, on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Wesleyan University professor Andrew Curran on Denis Diderot; Smith College professor Michael Gorra on William Faulkner and the Civil War; Trinity College professor Christopher Hager on […]
Article Uncle Sam wants YOU to read ‘popular’ scholarly books Here is a full list of the newly named Public Scholars, their professional affiliations, book titles and grant amounts: • Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo, “Animals in the History of the United States,” $50,400. • Edward Ball, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., “Constant LeCorgne (1832-1886): Biography of a Klansman,” $50,400. • Nicholas Basbanes, independent scholar, North […]
Article What the 1920s tell us about Dolezal and racial illogic What does it mean to identify across race lines and to claim a racial identity disconnected from background or biology? Why does so-called reverse passing (white to black) generate such extraordinary attention and controversy? The Rachel Dolezal case reveals a conundrum in race debates that remains unresolved.
Article Jill Lepore’s ‘Secret History of Wonder Woman’ Who could save America from fascism in the 1940s? Feminists, according to Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston, in the form of Sapphists, coeds and Amazons. Marston created Wonder Woman to demonstrate how “feminine rule” would look and to cash in on the explosive popularity of comics, read by staggering numbers of people in the […]
Article The colorful world of comics Carla Kaplan, a professor of American literature at Northeastern University, is the 2014 winner of the Boston Authors Club’s Julia Ward Howe Award for “Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance” (HarperCollins). “Miss Anne” is a term applied to white women who played a role in the Harlem Renaissance, some of […]
Article New York Daily News Google Doodle honors ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ author Zora Neale Hurston, luminary of the Harlem Renaissance Hurston, best known for her seminal novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” was born in Florida on Jan. 7, 1891, but she moved to New York in 1925 with only $1.50 to her name. She soon became friends with Langston Hughes and Dorothy West. Carla Kaplan, a professor of American Literature at Northeastern University and […]
Article White Women in Harlem’s Renaissance Carla Kaplan, a professor of American literature at Northeastern University, offers a joint biography of six largely forgotten women (winnowed down from five dozen whom she researched) in “Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance” (Harper, $28.99). The convention-bending women included philanthropists, educators, heiresses and novelists who figured in the Harlem Renaissance of […]
Article ‘Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women of the Black Renaissance’ by Carla Kaplan There may be no clearer embodiment of that idealism than the Misses Anne of Carla Kaplan’s intriguing new book: the white women who in one fashion or another decided to make the Harlem Renaissance their own. Kaplan, the Davis distinguished professor of American literature at Northeastern University, admits that it was a minuscule group, largely […]
Article Introducing ‘Miss Anne,’ The White Women Of A Black Renaissance Ten years ago, literary scholar Carla Kaplan released an acclaimed edition of the letters of Zora Neale Hurston. In the course of researching Hurston’s life, Kaplan became curious about the white women who were in Harlem in the same period as Hurston, women who risked family exile and social ostracism to be part of the […]