Sydney Kaplan

Professor

206-685-1538

sydneyk@uw.edu

PDL A-302

Office Hours:

on line by appointment

Fields of Interest

Background and Experience

Summary

A.B., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 1961

M.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 1966

Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 1971

Areas of Specialization

Twentieth Century British Literature, Modernism, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence,

Current Project

Circulating Genius: Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence and John Middleton Murry

Awards:

Royalty Research Fund Scholar, 1998

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2000

Professional Affiliations:

Katherine Mansfield Society

Research

Publications, Book Chapters

Publications, Books

Research Advised: Undergraduate Honors Theses

Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations

Chartudomdej, Sani. Antiheroes in the "Battle of the Sexes": The Anti-Heroic Mode and a Shift in the Meaning of Hegemonic Masculinity in World War I Fiction. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.

Research Advised: Undergraduate Symposia

Sher-Min Yang, "The Literature of Sexuality: Evolving British Attitudes through the Later 20th Century into Contemporary Times," 2012.

Courses Taught

Winter 2022

ENGL 368 A: Women Writers

Autumn 2021

ENGL 336 A: English Literature: Early Twentieth Century

Spring 2021

Spring 2019

Winter 2019

ENGL 494 B: Honors Seminar

Autumn 2018

ENGL 336 A: English Literature: Early Twentieth Century

Spring 2018

Winter 2018

ENGL 213 A: Modern and Postmodern Literature

Autumn 2017

ENGL 368 B: Women Writers

Spring 2017

ENGL 546 B: Topics In Twentieth-Century Literature: Cross Currents in British and American Modernism

Winter 2017

ENGL 336 A: English Literature: Early Twentieth Century

Autumn 2016

Spring 2016

Winter 2016

ENGL 546 A: Topics In Twentieth-Century Literature: Civilization and Its Discontents: Modernism and Cultural Crisis

Autumn 2015

ENGL 494 B: Honors Seminar

Spring 2015

ENGL 540 A: Modern Literature: Late Modernism in British Literature

Winter 2015

Autumn 2014

ENGL 336 A: English Literature: Early Twentieth Century

Spring 2014

Winter 2014

ENGL 540 A: Modern Literature: Modernism/Postmodernism in 20th c. British Fiction

Autumn 2013

ENGL 336 A: English Literature: Early Twentieth Century

University of Washington Links

Department of English