Amy Kaplan

Amy Kaplan was an American academic working in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies, her work focused on the critical study of the culture of imperialism, prison writing, mourning, memory, and war. Kaplan was Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and president of the American Studies Association in 2003.[1][2]

Amy Kaplan
Amy Kaplan delivering a lecture in 2010
BornSeptember 10, 1953
DiedJuly 30, 2020
AwardsNorman Forster prize for the best essay in American Literature (1998)
Academic background
Alma materBrandeis University, Johns Hopkins University
ThesisRealism against itself: the urban fictions of Twain, Howells, Dreiser, and Dos Passos (1982)
Academic work
InstitutionsMount Holyoke College, University of Pennsylvania
Main interestsAmerican culture, literature, policy, and imperialism.
Notable worksThe Social Construction of American Realism (1988); The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (2002).
Websitehttps://www.english.upenn.edu/people/amy-kaplan

Education and Career

Kaplan graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a BA.[3] She completed her PhD at The Johns Hopkins University, where she researched late-nineteenth-century American literature.[2] Her 1982 thesis was titled "Realism against itself: the urban fictions of Twain, Howells, Dreiser, and Dos Passos".[4] In 1994, she co-edited Cultures of United States Imperalism with Donald E. Pease, a book which has been credited with marking "a paradigm shift for the field of American Studies, forcing scholars to contend with the United States' imperialist history".[5]

Kaplan was a professor of English and chair of the American Studies program at Mount Holyoke College before joining the department of English at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003.[3] For the 2011–12 academic year, Kaplan was a member of the school of social sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[6]

Selected Works
  • Kaplan, Amy. "Romancing the empire: The embodiment of American masculinity in the popular historical novel of the 1890s." American Literary History 2.4 (1990): 659–690.[7]
  • Kaplan, Amy, and Donald E. Pease. Cultures of United States Imperialism. Duke University Press, (1993).[8]
  • Kaplan, Amy. "Manifest domesticity." American literature 70.3 (1998): 581–606.[9]
  • Kaplan, Amy. The Social Construction of American Realism. The University of Chicago Press, (1998).[10]
  • Kaplan, Amy. "Homeland insecurities: Some reflections on language and space." Radical History Review 85.1 (2003): 82–93.[11]
  • Kaplan, Amy. "Violent Belongings and the Question of Empire Today." American Quarterly 56.1 (2004): 1-18.[12]
  • Kaplan, Amy. "Where is Guantanamo?." American Quarterly 57.3 (2005): 831–858.[13]
  • Kaplan, Amy. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. Harvard University Press, (2005).[14]
  • Kaplan, Amy. Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance. Harvard University Press, (2018).[15]

Notes
  1. "Amy Kaplan | Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu.
  2. "American Studies International Conference September 11-13, 2008: American Studies and Imperial Designs: New Scholarship and Perspectives on the U.S. in the World" (PDF). September 4, 2008. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  3. "2/10/04, Dr. Kaplan: Kahn Endowed Term Chair in the Humanities - Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 21". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  4. Kaplan, Amy (August 2, 1982). "Realism against itself: the urban fictions of Twain, Howells, Dreiser, and Dos Passos".
  5. Sell, Laura (July 31, 2020). "Farewell to Amy Kaplan".
  6. "Amy Kaplan". Institute for Advanced Study.
  7. Kaplan, Amy (1990). "Romancing the Empire: The Embodiment of American Masculinity in the Popular Historical Novel of the 1890s". American Literary History. 2 (4): 659–690. doi:10.1093/alh/2.4.659. JSTOR 489924.
  8. Cultures_of_United_States_Imperialism
  9. Kaplan, Amy (1998). "Manifest Domesticity". American Literature. 70 (3): 581–606. doi:10.2307/2902710. JSTOR 2902710.
  10. The_Social_Construction_of_American_Real
  11. Kaplan, Amy (January 7, 2003). "Homeland Insecurities: Some Reflections on Language and Space". Radical History Review. 85 (1): 82–93. doi:10.1215/01636545-2003-85-82 – via Project MUSE.
  12. Kaplan, Amy (2004). "Violent Belongings and the Question of Empire Today: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, October 17, 2003". American Quarterly. 56 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1353/aq.2004.0010. JSTOR 40068211. S2CID 144219947.
  13. Kaplan, Amy (2005). "Where Is Guantánamo?". American Quarterly. 57 (3): 831–858. doi:10.1353/aq.2005.0048. JSTOR 40068318. S2CID 144062567.
  14. The_Anarchy_of_Empire_in_the_Making_of_U
  15. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737624
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