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Amy Kaplan | |
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 Amy Kaplan delivering a lecture in 2010 | |
| Born | September 10, 1953 |
| Died | July 30, 2020 (aged 66) |
| Awards | Norman Forster prize for the best essay in American Literature (1998) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Brandeis University, Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | Realism against itself: the urban fictions of Twain, Howells, Dreiser, and Dos Passos (1982) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Mount Holyoke College, University of Pennsylvania |
| Main interests | American culture, literature, policy, and imperialism. |
| Notable works | The Social Construction of American Realism (1988); The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (2002). |
| Website | https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/amy-kaplan |
Amy Kaplan (September 10, 1953 – July 30, 2020) was an American academic working in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies, her work focused on the critical study of the culture of imperialism, prison writing, mourning, memory, and war. Kaplan was Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and president of the American Studies Association in 2003.[1][2]
- ^ "Amy Kaplan | Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu.
- ^ "American Studies International Conference September 11-13, 2008: American Studies and Imperial Designs: New Scholarship and Perspectives on the U.S. in the World" (PDF). September 4, 2008. Retrieved August 2, 2020.