Carla Kaplan is Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University in Boston. Her research and teaching focuses on American Literature, Modern Literature and Culture, African American Literature and History, Feminist Theory, Women’s Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies. She is the author, most recently, of Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (HarperCollins, 2013), which was supported by a New York Public Library Cullman Center fellowship (2006-2007), a Guggenheim fellowship (2007-2008), and a W. E. B. DuBois Institute Research Fellowship (2007-2008).