Alice Kaplan
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Alice Kaplan is the Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature and History at Duke University. She is the author of Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life (1986); French Lessons: A Memoir (1993); The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (2000); and, most recently, The Interpreter (2005).
Her research interests include autobiography and memory, translation in theory and practice, twentieth-century French literature, and post-war French culture. She was the founding director of the Duke Center for French and Francophone Studies and currently sits on the editorial board at South Atlantic Quarterly.
[edit] Education
In 1973 she did a year of study at the Université de Bordeaux III in Bordeaux, France. She obtained her BA in French at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 and her PhD in French at Yale University in 1981.[1]
