Carla Kaplan

Carla Kaplan is the author of the award-winning volume, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters and the editor of Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States. Professor Kaplan teaches English, Gender Studies, and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of numerous publications in American literature, African American Studies, The Harlem Renaisssance and the 20’s, and Gender Studies. Her other books include The Erotics of Talk: Women’s Writing and Feminist Paradigms, Dark Symphony and Other Works by Elizabeth Laura Adams, and a Norton Critical Edition of Nella Larsen’s Harlem Renaissance novel, Passing.