Carla Kaplan

Carla Kaplan is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University where she is developing a Center for the Study of Biography and Cultural History. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and has held teaching appointments in English, African-American Studies, Gender Studies, and American Studies at Yale University and the University of Southern California before moving to Northeastern in fall of 2006. She is the author of The Erotics of Talk: Women’s Writing and Feminist Paradigms, and Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, which was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award, a New York Times “Notable Book” and chosen three times as a “best” book by The New York Times. She is also editor of Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk Tales from the Gulf States, Dark Symphony and Other Works by Elizabeth Laura Adams, a forthcoming Norton Critical Edition of Nella Larsen’s Passing (due in 2007), and a forthcoming Norton Critical Edition of Nella Larsen’s Quicksand. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the NEH, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Beinecke Library, the Harry Ransom Research Center, and others, and has served on numerous editorial boards, including American Literature, PMLA, and American Quarterly. Her current project, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, a group biography, is forthcoming from HarperCollins.