Caren Kaplan
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Caren Kaplan is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California at Davis, and a prominent figure in the academic discipline of women's studies
. Together with Inderpal Grewal
, Kaplan is best known for her work as a founder of the field of transnational feminist cultural studies
or transnational feminism
. Kaplan is a proponent of the digital humanities and has turned the critical lens of cultural studies
upon topics such as travel, visual culture, militarization and the construction of consumer subjects.
Kaplan received her Ph.D. in 1987 from the History of Consciousness
program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She wrote her dissertation, The Poetics of Displacement: Exile, Immigration, and Travel in Contemporary Autobiographical Writing, under the direction of James Clifford
, Donna Haraway
, and Teresa de Lauretis. Before accepting her position at UC Davis, Kaplan held teaching appointments at the University of California Berkeley and Georgetown University
. In 2006-2007, she won the prestigious Digital Innovation Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies
. Kaplan was the founder of the Designated Emphasis on Women, Gender and Sexuality at UC Berkeley when she was a professor there and heavily influenced a new generation of scholars including such figures as Jasbir Puar
.
Women's studies
Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective...
. Together with Inderpal Grewal
Inderpal Grewal
Inderpal Grewal is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, and a key figure in the academic discipline of women's studies...
, Kaplan is best known for her work as a founder of the field of transnational feminist cultural studies
Cultural studies
Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...
or transnational feminism
Transnational feminism
Transnational Feminism is a contemporary paradigm. The name highlights the difference between international and transnational conceptions of feminism, and favours the latter...
. Kaplan is a proponent of the digital humanities and has turned the critical lens of cultural studies
Cultural studies
Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...
upon topics such as travel, visual culture, militarization and the construction of consumer subjects.
Kaplan received her Ph.D. in 1987 from the History of Consciousness
History of Consciousness
The History of Consciousness program is an interdisciplinary graduate program in the humanities with links to the sciences, social sciences, and arts at the University of California at Santa Cruz....
program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She wrote her dissertation, The Poetics of Displacement: Exile, Immigration, and Travel in Contemporary Autobiographical Writing, under the direction of James Clifford
James Clifford
James Clifford is an historian and Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Clifford and Hayden White were among the first faculty directly appointed to the History of Consciousness Ph.D. program in 1978, which was originally the only...
, Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway
Donna J. Haraway is currently a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States...
, and Teresa de Lauretis. Before accepting her position at UC Davis, Kaplan held teaching appointments at the University of California Berkeley and Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
. In 2006-2007, she won the prestigious Digital Innovation Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies
American Council of Learned Societies
The American Council of Learned Societies , founded in 1919, is a private nonprofit federation of seventy scholarly organizations.ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awards. ACLS Fellowships are designed to permit scholars holding the Ph.D...
. Kaplan was the founder of the Designated Emphasis on Women, Gender and Sexuality at UC Berkeley when she was a professor there and heavily influenced a new generation of scholars including such figures as Jasbir Puar
Jasbir Puar
Jasbir K. Puar is a US-based queer theorist, presently a core faculty member in the department of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Puar is author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times.-Academic career:...
.
Books
- Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement, Duke University Press, 1996.
- Caren Kaplan and Inderpal GrewalInderpal GrewalInderpal Grewal is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, and a key figure in the academic discipline of women's studies...
, An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, September 25, 2001 (Second edition 2005)
- Caren Kaplan, Norma AlarcónNorma AlarcónNorma Alarcón is a Chicana author, professor, and publisher in the United States. She is the founder of Third Woman Press and a major figure in Chicana feminism.-Biography and Schooling:...
and Minoo Moallem. Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State, Duke University Press, 1999.
- Caren Kaplan and Inderpal GrewalInderpal GrewalInderpal Grewal is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, and a key figure in the academic discipline of women's studies...
, Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices, (Univ of Minnesota Press,1994)