- Alice Kaplan
Alice Kaplan is the Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature and History at
Duke University . 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 ofRobert Brasillach (2000); and, most recently, The Interpreter (2005).Her research interests include autobiography and memory, translation in theory and practice, twentieth-century French literature, and post-war French culture. She was the founding director of the Duke Center for French and Francophone Studies and currently sits on the editorial board at South Atlantic Quarterly.
Education
In 1973 she did a year of study at the Université de Bordeaux III in
Bordeaux, France . She obtained her BA in French at theUniversity of California at Berkeley in 1975 and herPhD in French atYale University in 1981. [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Romance/faculty/alice.kaplan]Duke Lacrosse Controversy
During the
2006 Duke University lacrosse case , Kaplan was one of the so-calledGroup of 88 professors.External links
* [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Romance/faculty/alice.kaplan Homepage]
* [http://motspluriels.arts.uwa.edu.au/MP2303ak.html "Translation: The Biography of an Art Form"] by Alice Kaplan
* [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060529/kaplan "Love in the Ruins: Review of Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française] in The Nation
* [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/424146.html Excerpt from The Collaborator] and [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/424146in.html Interview]
* [http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=510944&agid=2 Excerpt from The Interpreter]
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