Carla Kaplan

Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature; Ph.D. Northwestern University

• Research areas and interests: American Literature, Modern Literature and Culture, African American Literature and History, Feminist Theory, Women's Literature, Gender and Seuxality Studies, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies

• Founding Director, Northeastern University Humanities Center www.Northeastern.edu/humanities

• Selected publications: Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (2002), listed as a “Best of 2002” book by the New York Times Book Review ; The Erotics of Talk: Women’s Writing and Feminist Paradigms (1996). She has edited several books, including Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk Tales from the Gulf States originally collected by Zora Neale Hurston (2001), and the forthcoming Norton Critical Edition of Nella Larsen’s novel Passing. In support of her current book project, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (HarperCollins, 2009), Professor Kaplan has been awarded a New York Public Library Cullman Center fellowship (2006-2007), a Guggenheim fellowship (2007-2008), and a W. E. B. DuBois Institute Research Fellowship (2007-2008). Two additional books, a Norton Critical Edition of Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and a biography of Jessica Mitford, are currently under contract.