Professor Emerita
Fields of Interest
Biography
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
Research
Selected Research
- Sydney Janet Kaplan, "Katherine Mansfield's American Legacy," in Re-forming World Literature: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story, Ibidem Press, 2018
- Sydney Janet Kaplan, "A Critical Duet: Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf Reviewing Their Contemporaries," Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury Group, edited by Todd Martin, Bloomsbury Press, 2017.
- Sydney Janet Kaplan, Circulating Genius: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence, Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
- Sydney Kaplan. Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of Modernist Fiction. Cornell University Press. 1991.
- Sydney Kaplan. Feminine Consciousness in the Modern British Novel. University of Illinois Press. 1975.
Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations
- Bartley, Nancy L. Blind Bliss and the Reality of Others: How Consensually Validated Groups Contribute to the Development of Fascism. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- 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 Honors Theses
- Tristan Walde: Catching the Catcher in the Rye: Charles Taylor’s Ideal of Authenticity’s Attempt to Save Holden Caulfield from His Naïve Navigation of Modernity’s ‘loss of meaning’
- Hannah Nguyen; Cyclicity in Natural Landscape: Its Clash with Human Civilizational Progress
- Lauren Davis: An Investigation of the Unique Ways Speculative Fiction Can Interrogate Systems of Power, Through an Analysis of N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy
- Kavinila Rengaraju: The Flood of Flowers: An Exploration of the Effects of Western Capitalism on Identity Formation in the Colonized Woman
- Leah Cantor: Stolen Autonomy and Futile Rebellion: Deriving Power form the Oppression of Women Under the Declining British Empire
- Tamar Leveson Reading Pregnancy as Liminality in Modernist British Fiction
- Michael Charles Fulwiler. Baseball and Black Identity: Imagined Community, Baseball Literature, and the Integration of Major League Baseball. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Dustin Cody Hansen. Imagination and the Role of Literature in Moral Progress During the Victorian Era. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Stephanie Yi-Farng Hsieh. Perception, Creation, and the Space Between: A Consideration of Reality-Generating Devices in Science Fiction. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Elizabeth Caryn Hsu. Virginia Woolf's Metaphors for Thought, the Mind, and Consciousness. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Noelle Mina Jung. Asian American Youth Identity and Culture: Balancing Two Worlds and Creating a New World. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Tyler Leigh Britton. Woolf's The Waves: On Words. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Katie Alexandra Kowalski. A Double Consciousness: Fabricating Narrative Worlds in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude and George MacDonald's Phantastes: A Fairie Romance for Men and Women. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Merzamie Sison Cagaitan. Transcending Fractured Geopolitical and Metaphoric Borders: The Mobile Trajectory of the Grotesque Female Body's Transformation from Object to Subject. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Bailey Elyse Rahn. Trolls, Transition and Tradition: Rewriting Norwegian Identity in Immigrant and Homesteading Literature. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Hannah Grace Campbell. Emily Dickinson: Religious Skepticism during the Second Great Awakening. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Samara Lynn Surface. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Sarah J. Cole. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Sher-Min Faith Yang. This Inner Time is Our Wife': Time, Separation and Love in Three Contemporary Novels. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Casey Shea Dickson. Experience Structured by the Act of Looking: the Faulknerian Novel and Photographic Theory. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
- Caitlin Elizabeth Donnelly. Metafictional Dynamics of Grief and Coping in Turn-of-the-21st-Century Literature. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2012.
Research Advised: Undergraduate Symposia
Courses Taught
Spring 2023
Winter 2022
Autumn 2020
Spring 2020
Winter 2019
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
Autumn 2017
Spring 2017
Autumn 2016
Spring 2016
Autumn 2015
Winter 2015
Spring 2014
Affiliations
Professional Affiliations:
Katherine Mansfield Society