Apl. Prof. Dr. Marc Caplan

Juni 1989, Bachelor-Abschluss am Department of English, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Juni 1997, Master-Abschluss am Department of Comparative Literature , New York University, New York, NY
September 2003, PhD am Department of Comparative Literature , New York University, New York, NY
Seit 2022 Akademischer Oberrat (Senior Lecturer), Institut für Jüdische Studien, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, MCAS Senior Fellowship, 2021
University of Wroclaw, Taube Department of Jewish Studies, Summer Term Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Wroclaw, Poland, 2019
Internationales Forschungzentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Kunstuniversität Linz in Wien, Vienna, Austria, Senior Fellowship, 2018-2019
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Fellowship to the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, 2015-2016
Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, Cahnman Senior Scholar-in-Residence, 2014-2015
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Fellowship to The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, 2011
Universität Konstanz, Germany, Fellowship to the “Excellenzkluster 16: Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration”, 2009
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Center for Jewish Studies, Harry Starr Fellowship, 2005-2006
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Betty and Morris Shuch Term Fellowship, 2004-2005

Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2021.
How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2011.
“Double or Nothing: The Erasure of Jewish Speech and Language in Georges Perec’s W ou le souvenir
d’enfance.” There’s a Jewish Way of Saying Things: A Volume of Essays Honoring David Roskies. Ed.
Avraham Rosen and Jillian Davidson. Published Online at In geveb, June 2020
“Marking Territory: A Flâneur’s Failure in I.L. Peretz’s Mayses.” Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish
History. Issue 17 (September 2020): 22-42.
“Arnold Schoenberg’s Jewish Trauerspiel: Aesthetics, Law, and Ethics in Moses und Aron.” Modernism/
Modernity, 28.3, 2021: 559-577.
“Yiddish Exceptionalism: Lynching, Race, and Racism in Joseph Opatoshu’s Lintsheray.” Inventing a
Modern Jewish Identity: Joseph Opatoshu, a Yiddish Writer, Thinker, and Activist Between Europe and
America. Ed. Sabine Koller, Gennady Estraikh, and Mikhail Krutikov. Oxford: Legenda, 2013: 173-87.
(Reprinted in In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, online peer-reviewed publication, June 2016

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“Welcome to the Jungle of Cities: Di Kafeterye as New York Dystopia,” (delivered paper), New Approaches to Isaac Bashevis Singer, University of Texas, Austin Texas, März 2022
“Don’t Mess with a Median Man: The Contradictions of Mediation and Moderation in Isaac Euchel’s Reb Henoch: Oder Woß tut me damit? (delivered paper), What Was Moderate About the Enlightenment: Moderation in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Newcastle University (online conference), Newcastle, UK, Januar 2022
“Echoes of Yiddish on the Streets of Berlin: The Melancholy Picaresques of Alfred Döblin and Sh. Y. Agnon” (Delivered Paper), Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Conference, Chicago, IL, Dezember, 2021
“Filshprakhikayt alts Kritik in Itsik Aykhl’s Reb Henoch, oder: Woß tut me damit” (Delivered Paper in Yiddish), XXIV. Symposium für Jiddische Studien in Deutschland, Universität Trier, Trier, Deutschland, Oktober 2021
"Dialogical Praxis: Multilingualism as Critique of the Kantian Sublime in Isaac Euchel's Reb Henoch" (Delivered Paper), Aesthetic Theories in Yiddish: The 15th Annual Lavy Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2019
"On the Threshold of a Metropolis: Warsaw Spaces in I. L. Peretz's Mayses" (Delivered Paper), Jiddisches Europa: Thinking Yiddish in Europe. Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Deutschland, Juni 2018

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