Events

Cornille Lecture | Carla Kaplan

"Miss Anne in Harlem: White Women of the Black Renaissance"

Carla Kaplan, Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University and 2013-14 Mary Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College, has published five books on modern, African-American, and women's history and culture, including The Erotics of Talk and the epistolary biography Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, which was an NAACP Image Award finalist, a featured Book-of-the-Month Club selection, selected as a best book of the year and a Notable Book by The New York Times and awarded a "top five" books award by New York Magazine.

Kaplan has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and elsewhere. She is Founding Director of the Northeastern University Humanities Center and an award-winning teacher who has previously taught at the University of Southern California and Yale University.  She has been awarded visiting professorships including the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities at Wellesley and the Fannie Hurst Visiting Professor at Washington University. A fellow of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Kaplan lives in Boston and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.