Kaplan served as an assistant professor at North Carolina State University and at Columbia University before becoming the Gilbert,Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature and History at Duke University and founding director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies there.[1][6] She joined the Yale faculty in 2008 and was named the John M. Musser Professor of French.[7] She has served as the Chair of the Department of French,the Director of the Whitney Humanities Center,and the Director of the Yale Translation Initiative at the MacMillan Center,which she founded together with Harold Augenbraum in 2018.[2] In 2019,she was named Sterling Professor of French.[8]
Kaplan is a founding member of the MaisonDAR collective,a pluridisciplinary space dedicated to fostering reflection,creation and practice among artists and researchers in Algiers.[38][39] She participated with the other members of that group in the “Champs des Possibles”project,which offered workshops and internships in cinema,photography,and literature.[40] Her book group,“Lioum Adab,”began in 2022 as part of that project,and has continued beyond.[41]
Selected works
Books
Kaplan,Alice. Seeing Baya:Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2024. Translated as Baya ou le grand vernissage,trans. Patrick Hersant. Marseille:Le Bruit du Monde,and Algiers:Éditions Barzakh,2024.
Kaplan,Alice. States of Plague:Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic. Co-authored with Laura Marris. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2022. Translated as État de peste:Lire Camus àl’heure de la pandémie,trans. Patrick Hersant. Paris:Gallimard/Arcades,2023.
Kaplan,Alice. Maison Atlas:Roman,trans. Patrick Hersant. Marseille:Le Bruit du Monde,and Algiers:Éditions Barzakh,2022.
Kaplan,Alice. Turbulences,USA (2016–2020). Paris:Gallimard/Collections Tracts,Série Grand Format,2020.
Kaplan,Alice. Looking for The Stranger:Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2016. Translated as En quête de L’Étranger,trans. Patrick Hersant. Paris:Gallimard,2016.
Kaplan,Alice. Dreaming in French:The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy,Susan Sontag,and Angela Davis. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2012. Translated as Trois américaines àParis,trans. Patrick Hersant. Paris:Gallimard,2012.
Kaplan,Alice. The Interpreter. New York:The Free Press,2005. Translated as L’Interprète,trans. Patrick Hersant. Paris:Gallimard,2007.
Kaplan,Alice. The Collaborator:The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2000.
French translation:Intelligence avec l’ennemi:Le procès de Robert Brasillach,trans. Bruno Poncharal. Paris:Gallimard,2001.
Italian translation:Il collaboratore:Processo e morte di un fascista,trans. Giuseppe Balestrino. Bologna:Societàeditrice il Mulino,2002.
Greek translation;rpt. The Legal Classics Library,2006.
Spanish translation:El caso Brasillach:La Francia collabo ante el Espejo,trans. Francisco Campillo. Madrid:Fórcola Ediciones,2025.
Kaplan,Alice. French Lessons:A Memoir. Chicago and London:University of Chicago Press,1993. New edition with afterword by the author,2018.
Kaplan,Alice. Relevédes sources et citations dans "Bagatelles pour un massacre". Tusson (Charente):Éditions du Lérot,1987.
Kaplan,Alice. Reproductions of Banality:Fascism,Literature and French Intellectual Life. Foreword by Russell Berman. Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press,1986.
Edited Volumes
Camus,Albert. Travels in the Americas:Notes and Impressions of a New World. Edited and with an introduction by Alice Kaplan. Translated by Ryan Bloom. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2023.
Camus,Albert. Personal Writings. Edited with a foreword by Alice Kaplan. New York:Knopf,2020.
Camus,Albert. Committed Writings. Edited with a foreword by Alice Kaplan. New York:Knopf,2020.
Camus,Albert. Algerian Chronicles. Edited with an introduction by Alice Kaplan,translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge:Harvard University Press,2013.
Céline,Louis-Ferdinand. USA. Edited with an introduction by Alice Kaplan and Philippe Roussin. South Atlantic Quarterly. Durham:Duke University Press,Spring 1994.
Kaplan,Alice and Ross,Kristin,eds. Everyday Life. Yale French Studies,Vol. 73. New Haven:Yale University Press,Fall 1987.
Kaplan,Alice,ed. Anti-Semite and Jew:The Aesthetics and Politics of an Ethnic Identity. SubStance 49 (Vol. XV,No. 1). Madison:University of Wisconsin Press,1986.
Prefaces and Introductions
Guilloux,Louis. Blood Dark. Introduction by Alice Kaplan. New York:NYRB Classics,2017. Also in The New Republic (digital edition,October 19,2017).
Ferrandez,Jacques. Le premier homme. Introduction by Alice Kaplan. Paris:Gallimard,2017. English trans. Ryan Bloom,Pegasus Books.
Bloch-Dano,Evelyne. Paper Gardens. Translated by Theresa Lavender Fagan,foreword by Alice Kaplan. Charlottesville:University of Virginia Press,2018.
Sarraute,Nathalie. Childhood,trans. Barbara Bray. Preface by Alice Kaplan. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2013.
Selected Translations from the French
Toumi,Samir. Alger le cri. Translated by Alice Kaplan. The Yale Review 107 (1),January 2019.
Grenier,Roger. Palace of Books. Translated and with a foreword by Alice Kaplan. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2016.
Grenier,Roger. A Box of Photographs. Translated by Alice Kaplan. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2013.
Grenier,Roger. The Difficulty of Being a Dog. Translated by Alice Kaplan. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2009.
Guilloux,Louis. OK,Joe. Translated and with an introduction by Alice Kaplan. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2003.
Bloch-Dano,Evelyne. Madame Proust:A Biography. Translated by Alice Kaplan. Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2003.
Grenier,Roger. Another November / Le Pierrot Noir. Translated by Alice Yaeger Kaplan. New York:The New Press,1998.
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