Prof. Marc Caplan
Vita
PhD; Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Professor of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Culture; Assistant Professor, Department of German and Romance Languages; The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2006-Present Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Professor of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Culture, Department of German and Romance Languages, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
2005-2006 Harry Starr Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2004-2005 Betty and Morris Shuch Fellow, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2003-2004 Visiting Assistant Professor, Director, “Major Themes and Characters Program”, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
2003 PhD Awarded (Dissertation Defense Approved with Distinction), Department of Comparative Literature, New York University, New York, NY, USA
1997 MA Awarded, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University, New York, NY, USA
1989 BA, Cum Laude, Department of English, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Research Areas
Yiddish Literature, Jewish Literature, German Literature, African Literature, Literary Theory, Post-colonial Theory
Function within the Center
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (June-November 2009)
about the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz
Research project “The Weight of an Epoch: Yiddish Literature and German Culture in the Interwar Era”
Abstract
Selected Publications
How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms, Stanford University Press, 2011
“The Hermit at the Circus: Der Nister, Der blaue Engel, and German-Yiddish Cultural Parallels in the Weimar Period” in Between Two Worlds: Yiddish-German Encounters: Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol 41 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press) 2009: 173-196
“Shattering the Mirror: The Fragmentation of Narrative Perspective in Y. L. Peretz’s Bilder fun a Provints-Rayze,” Jewish Social Studies, New Series Vol. 14, no. 1 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press) Fall 2007: 63-88
“Nos Ancetres, les Diallobes: Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure and the Existential Roots of African Negritude,” Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 51, no. 4 (Special Issue, “Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic”) Winter 2005: 936-957
“Performance Anxieties: Carnival Spaces and Assemblages in Der Nister’s ‘Under a Fence,’” Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, Volume 18, Number 1 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press) 1998: 1-18
Forthcoming: “Neither Here nor There: The Critique of Ideological Progress in Sholem Aleichem’s Kasrilevke Stories,” in Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boudaries, Center for Advanced Jewish Studies: University of Pennsylvania Press
“The Smoke of Civilization: The Dialectic of Enlightenment in Mendele Moykher-Sforim’s Di Klyatshe,” in Beyond the Modern Jewish Canon: Arguing Jewish Literature and Culture, A Festschrift in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse, Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard: Harvard University Press (2008): 445-466
“Tituba Was Here But ’im Disappear: Legends, History, and Novelistic Form in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and The Harder They Come,” in African Literatures at the Millennium, African Literature Association Annual 13, Edited by Arthur D. Drayton, Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, and I. Peter Ukpokodu. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc.) 2007: 154-176
“Science Fiction in the Age of Jewish Enlightenment: Joseph Perl’s Revealer of Secrets: The First Jewish Novel,” Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, Volume 19, Number 1 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press) 1999: 93-100
Contact
E-Mail acaplan4[at]jhu.edu