Alice Y Kaplan, Professor Emeritus of Romance Studies, Literature, and History; French Studies and Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of History and Professor of Literature

Alice Y Kaplan

Please note: Alice has left the "History" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Office Location:  101C Art Museum
Office Phone:  919 684 4228
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.duke.edu/literature/Kaplan.html

Education:

PhDFrench Yale University1981
BA in FrenchUniversity of California - Berkeley1975
Year of StudyUniversité de Bordeaux III, Bordeaux, France1973
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Research Interests: 20th Century French Literature, Politics and Culture, Translation - Theory and Practice

Her research interests include memory and history in post-World War II France, autobiography, and the cultural history of translation; her graduate seminars have focused on issues in cultural studies, twentieth century French literature (Proust, Céline, and Camus), theories of fascism, and autobiography. Her books include Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life (1986); French Lessons (1993) and The Collaborator: the trial and execution of Robert Brasillach (2000) which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history. Kaplan was the founding director of Duke’s Center for French and Francophone Studies; she is a member of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary and serves on the editorial board of SAQ.

Current Ph.D. Students  

Recent Publications

  1. A. Kaplan, Through French Eyes: Gender, Race, and American Justice in Liberated France, in In the War Zone (in press) (2008), University of North Carolina Press
  2. A. Kaplan, Lady of the Lake, The American Scholar, vol. 76 no. 4 (Accepted, September 22, 2007), pp. 71-83, Phi Beta Kappa Society
  3. A. Kaplan, A Scholar's Paris, The Academic Life Supplement, The Chronicle for Higher Education (Accepted, September 14, 2007), pp. 26-34
  4. A. Kaplan, L'Interprete" (April, 2007), Gallimard
  5. A. Kaplan, Authors on Record [interview by Ellen Fried], Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Record Administration (March, 2007), National Archives