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Alice Yaeger Kaplan (born June 22, 1954) is an American literary critic, translator, historian, and educator. [1] She is Sterling Professor of French and former Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University.

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Alice Yaeger Kaplan was born on June 22, 1954, in Minneapolis, the daughter of Sidney J. Kaplan, an attorney, and Leonore Kaplan, a social worker. [1]

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. [2] 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 and founding director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies there. [3] 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 The Interpreter (2005), about racial injustice in the American army witnessed by Louis Guilloux. In March 2012, Kaplan's book about the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, Dreaming in French, was published by the University of Chicago Press. A French edition of Dreaming in French, entitled Trois Américaines à Paris: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, Angela Davis, was published by Éditions Gallimard in October 2012, translated by Patrick Hersant.

Kaplan is also the translator into English of Louis Guilloux's novel OK, Joe, Evelyne Bloch-Dano  [ fr ]'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, literature and the law, twentieth-century French literature, French cultural studies, and post-war French culture. Her recent undergraduate courses include courses on Camus, Proust, and Céline; theories of the archive; French national identity; “The Experience of Being Foreign”; and “Literary Trials.” Upcoming courses include “The Modern French Novel” (with Maurice Samuels) and a film course on French cinema of the Occupation. She currently sits on the editorial board at South Atlantic Quarterly and on the usage panel for the American Heritage Dictionary , and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is represented by the Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

Awards

The Collaborator was awarded the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History [4] and was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critic’s Circle awards. [5] The Interpreter was the recipient of the 2005 Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government, [6] and French Lessons was nominated for the 1993 National Books Critics Circle Award (for autobiography and biography). [5] She was the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1994. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Kaplan, Alice 1954- (Alice Y. Kaplan, Alice Yaeger Kaplan)". Contemporary Authors. Cengage.
  2. ↑ "Kaplan | Department of French". Archived from the original on 2011-08-16. Retrieved 2011-06-04.
  3. ↑ "Alice Yaeger Kaplan: An Inventory of Her Collection of Céline Survey Materials in the Manuscript Collection". Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center . University of Texas at Austin . Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ Alice Kaplan - Los Angeles Times
  5. 1 2 Alice Kaplan
  6. ↑ Society For History in the Federal Government Meets in Washington, D.C
  7. ↑ "Alice Kaplan - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2011-06-04.
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