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Dr. Brett Ashley Kaplan

Courses

  • Visual Arts and Holocaust Representation
  • Contemporary Jewish Experiences

Education

  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  • MA, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  • MA, University of Sussex, Brighton, England
  • BA, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

Bio

Dr. Brett Ashley Kaplan聽directs the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is a professor of Comparative and World Literature.

Widely published, her writing can be found in Haaretz,听The Conversation,听Salon.com,听AJS Perspectives,听Contemporary Literature,听Edge Effects, and the聽Jewish Review of Books. She has been interviewed on NPR, the AJS Podcast, and The 21st.

Her edited collection, Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches聽is forthcoming from Bloomsbury, and she is at work on a co-edited collection (with Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Sara Feldman) entitled聽Blewish: Contemporary Black-Jewish Voices. She is also conducting interviews for聽Fearless Louise, a co-written biography of Louise Fishman with Amy Powell, and working on a second novel, Vandervelde Downs, about the recovery of Nazi-looted objects found in a Vietnamese Refugee Center in provincial England.

Publications

  • Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches, editor (Bloomsbury)
  • Rare Stuff聽(a novel, Spuyten Duyvil)
  • Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth听(颁辞苍迟颈苍耻耻尘/叠濒辞辞尘蝉产耻谤测)
  • Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory听(搁辞耻迟濒别诲驳别)
  • Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation聽(University of Illinois)

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