More on Penn BDS'er Amy Kaplan
You will recall the video I posted of Penn Professor Amy Kaplan speaking at the BDS conference about how to demonize Israel in every class.Here are some more details about her and about the sponsor of her chair at Penn.
Amy Kaplan
Edward W. Kane Professor of English
amkaplan@english.upenn.edu
Fisher-Bennett Hall 240
215-898-7841
office hours:
Spring 2012 On Leave
Working in the interdisciplinary field of American studies, Amy Kaplan's scholarship and teaching focus on the culture of imperialism, comparative perspectives on the Americas, prison writing, the American novel, and mourning, memory and war.
A past president of the American Studies Association, Kaplan received her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, with a specialty in late-nineteenth-century American literature. Her first book was The Social Construction of American Realism (U Chicago P, 1988). She co-edited, with Donald Pease, Cultures of U. S. Imperialism (Duke, 1993). In her book The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Harvard UP 2002) Kaplan shows how imperial expansion abroad--from the US-Mexico War of 1848 to the First World War--profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home. She has received an NEH Fellowship and the Norman Forster prize for the best essay in American Literature in 1998 for "Manifest Domesticity."
A wide-ranging critic of American culture and policy and of the language of empire today, Kaplan has published recent essays on academic life in occupied Palestine, the discourse of “homeland security” in response to 9/11, the place of Guantanamo Bay in American history, and analogies between the American and Roman Empires, as well as articles on Mark Twain and Herman Melville. She is currently exploring the persistent and powerful working of Zionism in American culture and politics.
And here’s information on the man behind her endowed chair if anyone wants to follow this further.
https://fission.sas.upenn.edu/
Edward W. Kane, C’71 | Amy Kaplan |
This professorship was established through a gift from Edward W. Kane, C ’71, to recruit or retain a preeminent scholar and teacher in the Department of English. | |
This professorship was established through a gift from Edward W. Kane, C ’71, and Martha Wallace, parents. Mr. Kane is a founder and senior managing director of HarbourVest Partners, LLC, a global private equity investment firm. He graduated cum laude from Penn and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1975. During his term as a University trustee, from 1996-2001, he worked on a project to help distribute faculty books to alumni. | |
Edward W Kane & Martha J Wallace Family Foundation - Concord, MA
General Information | |
Nonprofit Organization | Edward W Kane & Martha J Wallace Family Foundation |
Employer Identification Number (EIN) is a nine digit number assigned by the IRS to identify a particular organization’s account. EIN (Tax ID) | 043466900 |
Address | |
Another name under which the organization does business. Also used for trade names, chapter names, or local numbers for subordinate organizations of group rulings. Secondary Name | KANE EDWARD W TTEE |
Section 501(c) of the federal tax code defines and explains what type of organizations is eligible for tax exemption. There are more then 25 classifications of nonprofit organizations, Nonprofit Classification | Charitable Organization |
Affiliation | Independent |
Organization Type | Trust |
Deductibility Code signifies whether contributions made to an organization are deductible. Deductibility Code | Contributions are deductible. |
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Purpose | |
An organization has a purpose, which is generally known as its mission or goal. Organization's Purpose | Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations |
The National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) Code is used to classify an exempt organization in terms of its primary exempt activity. Organization's Specific Purpose | Private Grantmaking Foundations |
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Officer Details | |
In Care of Name | EDWARD W KANE |
I wouldn't blame Ed Kane for this. Harbourvest sounded like a familiar name, so I looked up their SEC filing for the end of 2010, and they have (or had then) at least one investment in Israel that I recognized.
But if someone can explain to me what Professor Kaplan's scholarship has to do with English Literature, I'd really appreciate it. It sounds more like History or Political Science to me.
Labels: BDS, propaganda, University of Pennsylvania
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:18 PM
3 Comments:
No mention of course, of izlamic/communist cultural imperialism!! Not only cultural but actual colonising non-mozlem/commie countries!!
This appalling brain-dead is being paid good money to twist young people's perception and pervert their morals!!
I agree. Her "scholarship" seems to have little to do with English or American literature. I speculate she is a pioneer in the new field of "Agenda Studies."
It's a scary thought that people like this have free range of our young people's brains. Secondly, how does U of P justify keeping her employed?
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