Carla
Kaplan is an award-winning professor and writer who holds
the Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professorship in American
Literature at Northeastern University, and she has also taught at the
University of Southern California and Yale. Kaplan is the author of The
Erotics of Talk and Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, as well
as the editor of Dark Symphony, and Other Works by Elizabeth Laura Adams,
Every Tongue Got to Confess by Zora Neale Hurston, and Passing by
Nella Larsen. A recipient of a Guggenheim and many other fellowships, Kaplan
has been a fellow in residence at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers,
the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the W. E. B. Du Bois
Institute, among other research centers. |