Alice Kaplan
Alice Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French at Yale University. Before her arrival at Yale, she was the Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature and History at Duke University. She is the author of Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life (1986); French Lessons: A Memoir (1993); The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (2000); and, most recently, The Interpreter (2005), about racial injustice in the American army witnessed by Louis Guilloux. Kaplan is also the translator of Lous Guilloux's novel OK, Joe, Evelyne Bloch-Dano's Madame Proust: A Biography, and three books by Roger Grenier: Piano Music for Four Hands, Another November, and The Difficulty of Being a Dog.
Kaplan's research interests include autobiography and memory, translation in theory and practice, twentieth-century French literature, and post-war French culture. She was the founding director of the Duke Center for French and Francophone Studies and currently sits on the editorial board at South Atlantic Quarterly.
Kaplan is completing work on a book about the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, to be published by the University of Chicago Press.
Awards
Kaplan was a 2000 National Book Award Finalist[1] and a nominee for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award.[2] She also won the LA Times Book Award in 2000.[2]
Education
In 1973 she did a year of study at the Université de Bordeaux III in Bordeaux, France. She obtained her BA in French at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 and her PhD in French at Yale University in 1981.[3]
Duke Lacrosse Controversy
During the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, Kaplan was one of the so-called Group of 88 professors who, in the wake of the Lacrosse players scandal, signed a controversial letter thanking protesters for "making a collective noise" on "what happened to this young woman."[4] The letter has been widely criticized as a prejudgment since no sexual assault occurred.[5][6][7] The charges against the players were eventually dismissed and the District Attorney who prosecuted the case, Michael Nifong, was disbarred and jailed.
References
- ^ http://www.rusoffagency.com/authors/kaplan_a/alice_kaplan.html
- ^ a b http://www.rusoffagency.com/authors/kaplan_a/alice_kaplan.htm
- ^ "Alice Y Kaplan, Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies, Literature, and History; French," Department of Romance Studies Duke University.
- ^ http://johnsville.blogspot.com/2006/11/duke-case-listening-statement.html
- ^ http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/563248.html
- ^ JPG of Listening Statement
- ^ Video of protesters
