Amy Kaplan

Edward W. Kane Professor

English

Education:

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests:

American Empire, American Literature, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in literature.

Representative Awards and Distinctions:

NEH Fellowship (2008); Norman Forster Prize for the Best Essay in American Literature for "Manifest Domesticity" (1998); President of the American Studies Association (2003).

Recent Publications:

The Anarchy of Empire and the Making of U.S. Culture, Harvard University Press (2002).

Courses:

Contact and Conflict: Literatures of Palestine and Israel